The Borderlands of Olmostankovic is a small, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 40 million Olmostankovicians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Olmostankovician economy, worth 575 billion florins 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. 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 14,393 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation is compulsory, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and politicians preface their speeches with a declaration that any resemblance to speeches given by individuals living or dead is purely coincidental. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Olmostankovic's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Olmostankovic is ranked 110,359^th in the world and 608^th in Concord for Safest, scoring 79.53 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.