The Holy Empire of Horrorstan is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Holy President Samuel Cobren with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.38 billion Horrorstanians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Horroria Prima. The average income tax rate is 62.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Horrorstanian economy, worth 280 trillion Soul Coins 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Furniture Restoration. 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 43,963 Soul Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Caroling is considered a public disturbance, citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed, Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion, and new "Worker's Strike" laws set out who is allowed to strike a worker. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Horrorstan's national animal is the Worm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nullism.

Horrorstan is ranked 322,300^th in the world and 1^st in Horror Island for Most Developed, scoring 44.82 on the Human Development Index.