The Republic of Odo is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 769 million Odoans 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 large, liberal, socially-minded government prioritizes Welfare, although Education, Administration, and Social Policy are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 51.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Odoan economy, worth 19.0 trillion marks 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, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. 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 24,670 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls, trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, and imprisonment is the leading cause of disownment. Crime is totally unknown. Odo's national animal is the squirrel, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Odo is ranked 294,789^th in the world and 1^st in Anarres for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 263.43 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.