The Republic of The Only One Way is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 16 million Only One Wayians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Only One Wayian economy, worth 175 billion Friends a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 10,987 Friends, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to The Only One Way City to enjoy their national art, masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery, and the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Only One Way's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Only One Way is ranked 321,464^th in the world and 1,306^th in Europeia for Largest Populations, with 16.0 million capita.