The Arcane Republic of High Earth is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Prime executive with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, keen interest in outer space, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 2.265 billion High Earthites are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wyvernia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.8%.

The frighteningly efficient High Earthian economy, worth 323 trillion Pecuns a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 142,797 Pecuns, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 539,724 per year while the poor average 26,286, a ratio of 20.5 to 1.

It's considered providence that the political lexicon contains a syrup of company slogans, pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", and pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. High Earth's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

High Earth is ranked 269,655^th in the world and 106^th in England for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -9.65 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.