The Most Serene Republic of Oshra is a massive, pleasant nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, democratic population of 1.556 billion Oshrans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 8.0%.

The Oshran economy, worth 78.2 trillion descan trade standards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 50,272 descan trade standards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, tuxedo rental companies are inexplicably going out of business, and mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Oshra's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Oshra is ranked 90,345^th in the world and 344^th in Starlight for Nicest Citizens, with 15.09 average smiles per day.