The Expanding Desert of Apprime is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 15.383 billion Osirans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Osiran economy, worth 497 trillion scarabs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 32,277 scarabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Invasive species are hunted by the gendarmerie, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Apprime's national animal is the scarab, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Apprime is ranked 227,593^rd in the world and 2,747^th in The catholic military orders for Rudest Citizens, with 33.02 insults per minute.