The Queendom of Historis is a massive, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.875 billion Historisians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lua. The average income tax rate is 87.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Historisian economy, worth 189 trillion Golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is an impressive 100,889 Golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dancing with your first cousin is a misdemeanor, all the playground's a stage for Historisian schoolchildren, voting is voluntary, and the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Historis's national animal is the Vixen, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Historis is ranked 211,043^rd in the world and 397^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Populations, with 1.88 billion capita.