The Principality of Heptadecylamide is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, fear of technology, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, devout population of 1.966 billion Heptadecylamideans 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 54.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Heptadecylamidean economy, worth 163 trillion rupees a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 83,145 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment Leader's hair, armed security details escort librarians to their homes, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, and looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heptadecylamide's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Heptadecylamide is ranked 17,207^th in the world and 1^st in Juan Cena Jr for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 5,486.57 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.