The Federal Republic of Horthgar is a huge, socially progressive nation, ruled by Laios with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 930 million Horthgarians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osomance. The average income tax rate is 85.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Horthgarian economy, worth 77.1 trillion euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 82,946 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The endangered saltwater humpback Bear is only seen in captivity programs, the nation is currently revamping its entire education system, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Horthgar's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Horthgar is ranked 209,374^th in the world and 2,211^th in The East Pacific for Largest Populations, with 930 million capita.