The Queen's State of Obshchiy is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of public education and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 17.587 billion Obshchiyians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.6%.

The powerhouse Obshchiyian economy, worth 778 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 44,287 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 151,941 per year while the poor average 9,474, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

All major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, voting is voluntary, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and military spending is on the increase. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Obshchiy's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Obshchiy is ranked 258,418^th in the world and 7^th in Federal Republic of Russia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 46.98 law-abiding acts per hour.