The Republic of Objects In The Rear View Mirror is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, disturbing lack of elderly people, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.741 billion Objects In The Rear View Mirrorians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Objects In The Rear View Mirrorian economy, worth 215 trillion pesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 123,358 pesos, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 460,401 per year while the poor average 23,168, a ratio of 19.9 to 1.

Law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students, street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons, Tetris has been banned for its graphic violent content, and tourists buying prepaid smartphones are arrested for smuggling. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Objects In The Rear View Mirror's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Objects In The Rear View Mirror is ranked 317,696^th in the world and 17^th in Meat Loaf for Rudest Citizens, with 7.8 insults per minute.