The Ancient Shimmering Wyrm of The Seeker of Power is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by God Emperor Elegarth with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 35.166 billion Huggerists 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Midgard. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Seeker of Powerian economy, worth an astonishing 10,927 trillion Hug Coins a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 310,742 Hug Coins, with the richest citizens earning 8.6 times as much as the poorest.

Minstrels carrying coconut shells provide sound effects wherever their nobles wander, shouting contests are an important part of government job interviews, senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour, and turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Seeker of Power's national animal is the Hugger Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

The Seeker of Power is ranked 341^st in the world and 8^th in the Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 33,487.02 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.