The Holy Empire of Horrorstan is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Holy President Samuel Cobren with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, free-roaming dinosaurs, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.474 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 62.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Horrorstanian economy, worth 289 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 44,613 Soul Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, anti-tourism militias patrol the borders, and oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys. 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 22,212^th in the world and 1^st in Horror Island for Longest Average Lifespans, with 90.49 years.