The Troisième République of Opalaland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President Laura Roslin with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic, cheerful population of 37.276 billion Opalalandais 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 relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bibliotheque. The average income tax rate is 50.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Opalalandais economy, worth a remarkable 9,283 trillion opiates a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 249,057 opiates, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mosh pits are a common phenomenon in President Laura Roslin's political rallies, there is one competing standard, patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, and people with dyslexia are told to tough through it. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Opalaland's national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Opalaland is ranked 4,202^nd in the world and 8^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 604.67 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.