The Holy Empire of Herma Szabo is a huge, pleasant nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 980 million Herma Szaboans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.2%.

The strong Herma Szaboan economy, worth 48.0 trillion Euros a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 48,954 Euros, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country, Cats with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped, the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place, and adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Herma Szabo's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Herma Szabo is ranked 149,204^th in the world and 6,170^th in Lazarus for Safest, scoring 58.89 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.