The Unyielding Republic of Oblox is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Riven Loretta Calder with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.561 billion Obloxians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Damarra. The average income tax rate is 52.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Obloxian economy, worth 73.0 trillion Maltesers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 46,772 Maltesers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, and one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oblox's national animal is the Pedro, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Oblox is ranked 120,805^th in the world and 388^th in the Plains of Perdition for Smartest Citizens, with 33.57 quips per hour.