The Holy Empire of Headcrabians is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Nyarlathotep with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 22.625 billion Headcrabiansians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mega Therion. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Headcrabiansian economy, worth an astonishing 10,089 trillion corpses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 445,955 corpses, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,168,313 per year while the poor average 4,122, a ratio of 1,011 to 1.

Maxtopians are both starving and giddy after the Headcrabiansian military unleashed its biological weapons, repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events, minefields are being deployed along the border to discourage potential emigrants from trying to leave, and losing your sock key may require surgical intervention. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Headcrabians's national animal is the human, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Forceful fornication with feti.

Headcrabians is ranked 26,971^st in the world and 1,868^th in Balder for Largest Black Market, with 100 trillion Standard Monetary Units.