The Kingdom of The Gilded Heel is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Aurum with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 1.322 billion Gilded Heelians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boot. The average income tax rate is 69.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Gilded Heelian economy, worth 81.3 trillion Golds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,476 Golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, citizens must pay to enjoy The Gilded Heel's pristine beaches, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, and there's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Gilded Heel's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Gilded Heel is ranked 79,810^th in the world and 1,373^rd in Suspicious for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.5 law-abiding acts per hour.