The Thing of Holoresk is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Holoratus Starkiller with an even hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 15.287 billion Holors are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Explosive Factory. The average income tax rate is 74.4%.

The very strong Holor economy, worth a remarkable 1,218 trillion rubledollars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 79,682 rubledollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams, Tetris has been banned for its graphic violent content, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, and human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Holoresk's national animal is the malicious Osiran shadow hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is explosions.

Holoresk is ranked 24,838^th in the world and 5^th in Darkest Skies for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,950.96 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.