The Union of Socialist Societies of Osmos is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Chancellor Felix Mendelssohn with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, national health service, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 3.088 billion Osmosians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osmosia. The average income tax rate is 92.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Osmosian economy, worth 633 trillion Blahajs 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. 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 an amazing 204,990 Blahajs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, and citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Osmos's national animal is the Golden Tailed Blahaj, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Osmos is ranked 5,451^st in the world and 1^st in Federation of Conoric for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 7,975.17 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.