The Penguin Federation of Horasta is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Your Holiness The Great Penguin God with an even hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 7.155 billion Penguins enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South Pole. The average income tax rate is 50.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Horastan economy, worth a remarkable 1,277 trillion Fish a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 178,538 Fish, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, Your Holiness The Great Penguin God's handshakes with opposition leaders usually lead to thumb wars, hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, and cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Horasta's national animal is the Humans, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Anthropocentrism.

Horasta is ranked 265,879^th in the world and 42^nd in Intercontinental for Most Patriotic, with 0.94 flags saluted per person per day.