The Federal Republic of Ostren is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Elias Korrin with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.387 billion Ostrenians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capitol Heights. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Ostrenian economy, worth 78.9 trillion lire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,881 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many aides in Elias Korrin's office are known to be serial jaywalkers, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, the government raises tariffs on a weekly basis, and the nation's air missiles have killed thousands of Brasilistan military personnel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ostren's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Korrinism.

Ostren is ranked 130,986^th in the world and 3^rd in New Denmark for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 3,945.8 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.