The Empire of Horrenth is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Lord God Emperor King with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.776 billion Horrenthians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Absalom. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The large but inefficient Horrenthian economy, worth 527 trillion Coins a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Furniture Restoration and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 77,808 Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Baseball caps are the new fashion trend, the cold war against capitalism is growing chillier by the day, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', and children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Horrenth's national animal is the Duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Horrenth is ranked 5,144^th in the world and 297^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 115.85 law-abiding acts per hour.