The Confederacy of Higos is a mid-sized, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 50 million Higosians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.5%.

The strong Higosian economy, worth 3.01 trillion baht a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 60,282 baht, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and Higosian watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Higos's national animal is the cow, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Higos is ranked 263,365^th in the world and 61^st in Audinesca for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.79 kickbacks per hour.