The Penguin Federation of Horasta is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Your Holiness The Great Penguin God with an even hand, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 7.066 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 47.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Horastan economy, worth a remarkable 1,264 trillion Fish a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 178,965 Fish, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Young people suspect their parents might be a little bit stupid, literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, Your Holiness The Great Penguin God reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes, and old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones. 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 7,773^rd in the world and 1^st in Intercontinental for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 94,135.66 Standard Monetary Units.