The United Socialist States of Owliastan is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 776 million Owliastanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Owliastanian economy, worth 55.6 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 71,674 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tumbleweeds are seen blowing through the nation's airspace, students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic, the world outside is only known of in folklore, and the working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Owliastan's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Owliastan is ranked 175,604^th in the world and 1,203^rd in The Communist Bloc for Highest Drug Use, scoring 45.2 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.