The Magnificent Tail of Horo the Wise is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Horo the Wise Wolf with an iron fist, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, public floggings, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 28.999 billion Horoists are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Northern Forest. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.5%.

The powerhouse Horo the Wisean economy, worth a remarkable 2,894 trillion apples a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 99,820 apples, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 378,715 per year while the poor average 18,264, a ratio of 20.7 to 1.

Kids these days know how to throw a proper punch, motorway service stations often have a higher population than the hinterland villages that the roads lead to, the leaders of Horo the Wise are given the nod by their predecessors, and a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park. Crime is moderate. Horo the Wise's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Horoism.

Horo the Wise is ranked 234,409^th in the world and 29^th in Anime for Lowest Crime Rates, with 55.45 law-abiding acts per hour.