The Holy Empire of The Hemenopia is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Ernest Hemingway with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 19.745 billion Hemenopians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government prioritizes Administration, although Industry, Law & Order, and Defense are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hemingway. The average income tax rate is 91.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hemenopian economy, worth a remarkable 5,151 trillion pesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 260,907 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popular candidates who don't suffer last-second political scandals tend to get fished out of the Hemingway River, prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up, parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are given a short jail sentence, and monks aren't the only ones who take vows of silence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Hemenopia's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Written Word.

The Hemenopia is ranked 281,001^st in the world and 10^th in The Great Universe for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 21,394.39 Standard Monetary Units.