The Community of Suddenly Horses is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, ban on automobiles, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 537 million Suddenly Horsesians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 20.4%.

The Suddenly Horsesian economy, worth 25.9 trillion horses a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Trout Farming, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 48,242 horses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

The might of the entire Suddenly Horsesian Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders, the hit new medical TV show "Home" prominently features the brand of painkiller the lead doctor is addicted to, chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels, and homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force. Suddenly Horses's national animal is the horse.

Suddenly Horses is ranked 146,144^th in the world and 8,231^st in Osiris for Most Developed, scoring 56.37 on the Human Development Index.