The Republic of Ottterland is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by President Slider The Otter with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, daily referendums, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 6.049 billion Otterlandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Otterland City. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Otterlandian economy, worth 884 trillion Otter Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 146,264 Otter Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The freedom to be free is always just out of reach, nobody likes bad boys any more, the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code, and third world countries are rich in "I Love Otterland City" t-shirts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ottterland's national animal is the Otter 🦦, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Otterevangelistic chistianity.

Ottterland is ranked 184,488^th in the world and 1,126^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 49.62 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.