The European Capital of Culture of Ostymandia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by V75-Kungen with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 6.587 billion Ostymandians 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 enormous, corrupt, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Defense, Healthcare, and Public Transport also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skellefte. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ostymandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,031 trillion guitars a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 156,649 guitars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, respect is something that is typically forced rather than earned in Ostymandia, the nation is known abroad mostly for its Parliamentary antics, and the doctor has cold hands. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ostymandia's national animal is the samer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ostymandia is ranked 273,271^st in the world and 1,110^th in Europe for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -20 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.