The Republic of Ostroban is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Reinhard von Lohengramm with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 8.626 billion Ostrobanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Environment, and Defense also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ostyn. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ostrobanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,498 trillion osts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 289,614 osts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, and mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ostroban's national animal is the Seal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Ostroban is ranked 1,661^st in the world and 33^rd in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 4,027.23 pounds of wildlife per square mile.