The Free Land of Horace Silliman is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its burgeoning Giraffe population. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 15.779 billion Horace Sillimanians enjoy frequent elections, which are uniformly corrupted by big-spending corporations buying politicians who best suit their interests.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The very strong Horace Sillimanian economy, worth 909 trillion Platinums a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 57,617 Platinums, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 176,010 per year while the poor average 14,619, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Horace Silliman's national animal is the Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Horace Silliman is ranked 137,432^nd in the world and 314^th in Memeland United for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.