The Arcane Republic of High Earth is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Prime executive with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, triple-decker prams, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 7.466 billion High Earthites are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wyrmia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.7%.

The frighteningly efficient High Earthian economy, worth a remarkable 1,350 trillion Pecuns a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 180,910 Pecuns, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 992,040 per year while the poor average 16,800, a ratio of 59.0 to 1.

For just a few extra Pecuns High Earthites can get new driving records with their new cars, apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad, family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, and the government is said to have a martyrdom complex. Crime, especially youth-related, 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 is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

High Earth is ranked 263,260^th in the world and 46^th in England for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 12.7 Effective Tax Rate.