The Disputed Territories of Owion 18 is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 726 million Owion 18ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Owion city. The average income tax rate is 66.9%.

The very strong Owion 18ian economy, worth 57.3 trillion dollars 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. 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 78,966 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.3 times as much as the poorest.

Chipped paint can see a building condemned, voting is voluntary, prosecutors are tucked into bed by the household police officer, and the sun rises an hour later on border communities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Owion 18's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Owion 18 is ranked 204,618^th in the world and 72^nd in Owion for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -4 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.