The Free Land of Owion 48 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 563 million Owion 48ians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Owion city. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.7%.

The Owion 48ian economy, worth 31.3 trillion rubles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,572 rubles, with the richest citizens earning 7.1 times as much as the poorest.

Panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies, giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Leader is a silly poophead, interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories", and returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Owion 48's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Owion 48 is ranked 206,429^th in the world and 50^th in Owion for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 303.08 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.