The People's Republic of Horizontia is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 205 million Horizontians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Horizontian economy, worth 2.43 trillion Sozis 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, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, 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 11,864 Sozis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A valid legal defense is 'dead men tell no tales', kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", most ambassadors from Horizontia retire only a few years after being appointed, and schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention. Crime is totally unknown. Horizontia's national animal is the Burmese Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Horizontia is ranked 65,077^th in the world and 1,617^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Primitive, scoring 42.96 on the Scary Big Number Scale.