The Republic of Ottterland is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Slider The Otter with an even hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 5.963 billion Otterlandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Otterland City. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Otterlandian economy, worth 905 trillion Otter Dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 151,832 Otter Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ghost regiments exist only on paper, former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone, factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas, and many marriages end in murder. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ottterland's national animal is the Otter 🦦, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Otterevangelistic chistianity.

Ottterland is ranked 3,227^th in the world and 43^rd in Europe for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 17,867.28 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.