The Republic of Ostrowiec is a very large, efficient nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 439 million Ostrowiecians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29.1%.

The strong Ostrowiecian economy, worth 35.9 trillion Toastarian Bolivars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,723 Toastarian Bolivars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 313,012 per year while the poor average 14,727, a ratio of 21.3 to 1.

Obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, hordes of faceless civil servants are running cities, parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, and male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ostrowiec's national animal is the Slugcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ostrowiec is ranked 55,544^th in the world and 14^th in The Toastic Assembly for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 4,463.93 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.