The Grand Republic of Lorthos is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Darius Thorne with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, unlimited-speed roads, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.814 billion Lorthosians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Haven. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Lorthosian economy, worth 726 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 82,406 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration, many in Lorthos are born in the purple, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, and children wondering what happens to pets after they die are shown where the compost heap is. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lorthos's national animal is the Kraken, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Secular.

Lorthos is ranked 293,598^th in the world and 4^th in Kavonia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.