The Musical States of Oboesia is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Lady Giselle Odette with a fair hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 7.682 billion Oboesians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Swan Lake. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Oboesian economy, worth 126 trillion oboes 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 led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 16,502 oboes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark, wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps, and conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oboesia's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is ballet.

Oboesia is ranked 298,447^th in the world and 11^th in The Sweet Ubiquity for Most Developed, scoring 44.9 on the Human Development Index.