The Loving Couple of -Oh-Crikey is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Miki with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.269 billion -Oh-Crikeyians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amitys Hideout. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.3%.

The frighteningly efficient -Oh-Crikeyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,226 trillion snails a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 132,304 snails, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 378,256 per year while the poor average 36,861, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

The average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work, -Oh-Crikeyian schoolgirl uniforms have become alarmingly popular outside -Oh-Crikey, the existence of external reality is tacitly denied, and most citizens in -Oh-Crikey are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. -Oh-Crikey's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

-Oh-Crikey is ranked 82,405^th in the world and 10^th in The Empires And Republics Of Power for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,201.03 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.