The Republic of Osbedove is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 20.827 billion Osbedoveans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 92.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Osbedovean economy, worth a remarkable 5,168 trillion francs a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 248,166 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools, and God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Osbedove's national animal is the turtle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Osbedove is ranked 312,389^th in the world and 5^th in Soviet Democracy for Least Corrupt Governments, with 0.99 percentage of bribes refused.