The Great Monarchy of Gorthias is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Princess Lura V with an iron fist, and notable for its vat-grown people, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 24.626 billion Gorthiasians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shadowbrook. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gorthiasian economy, worth a remarkable 3,770 trillion Bits a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 153,091 Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People are always able to look each other in the eye, drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients, the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame, and politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gorthias's national animal is the Feather-bellied Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Monolatrism.

Gorthias is ranked 279,694^th in the world and 507^th in Starlight for Fattest Citizens, with 6.21 Obesity Rate.