The Disputed Territories of Obstinacy is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, strictly enforced bedtime, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 42.581 billion Obstinacyians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The minute government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Education, with Defense also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Welfare receive no funds. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Obstinacyian economy, worth an astonishing 19,148 trillion pelves a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Tourism. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 449,697 pelves, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Strange lights seen in the sky are officially regarded as weather balloons or hoaxes and nothing else, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, Leader's power is effectively nullified as no bill becomes law without the upper house's support, and the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Obstinacy's national animal is the dodo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Obstinacy is ranked 1,854^th in the world and 9^th in Wysteria for Least Corrupt Governments, with 96.6 percentage of bribes refused.