The Federal Republic of Horthgar is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Laios with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 863 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 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 82.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Horthgarian economy, worth 73.5 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 85,148 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Interest in globalism never flags, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy. 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 111,222^nd in the world and 2,028^th in The East Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,768.37 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.