The Post-War Democratic Republic of Oldosia is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Chairman Basit Blael with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 23.27 billion Oldosians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Oldosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,753 trillion Analias a year, is highly specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 75,357 Analias, with the richest citizens earning 9.2 times as much as the poorest.

Internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Oldosian weed picker are way up, accidentally dropping a nickel is a social taboo, the cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, and commuters regularly break the sound barrier -- and several bones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oldosia's national animal is the wombat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Violetism.

Oldosia is ranked 7,139^th in the world and 2^nd in Universum Aethereum for Largest Black Market, with 983 trillion Standard Monetary Units.