The Grace and Precision of Oaks 190 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its public floggings, flagrant waste-dumping, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.472 billion Oaks 190ians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.4%.

The powerhouse Oaks 190ian economy, worth 678 trillion planets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,840 planets, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 438,260 per year while the poor average 10,947, a ratio of 40.0 to 1.

Millions of devastated 7-year-olds are denied astronaut and ballerina training, orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step, disgruntled jocks are forced to play tetris for entertainment, and baby strollers have occupier-operated side-mounted machine guns. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Oaks 190's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Oaks 190 is ranked 259,531^st in the world and 5,168^th in Artificial Solar System for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -8.25 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.