The Republic of Heavy Weapons Trooper 9 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.538 billion Heavy Weapons Trooper 9ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.1%.

The Heavy Weapons Trooper 9ian economy, worth 69.2 trillion Credits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,997 Credits, with the richest citizens earning 9.5 times as much as the poorest.

Immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, and discarded pennies litter the streets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heavy Weapons Trooper 9's national animal is the Droid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Heavy Weapons Trooper 9 is ranked 85,628^th in the world and 1^st in Grasemere for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,625.3 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.