The Fiefdom of Ser Otto Hightower is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-working, cynical population of 7.995 billion Ser Otto Hightowerians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.0%.

The strong Ser Otto Hightowerian economy, worth 516 trillion Hands a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Gambling. Average income is 64,555 Hands, with the richest citizens earning 7.1 times as much as the poorest.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and the nation's diplomats shake hands with those whose hands are drenched in the blood of innocents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Ser Otto Hightower's national animal is the fox, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Ser Otto Hightower is ranked 170,520^th in the world and 62^nd in Westeros for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.