The Esperantist Federation of Ouidland is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Torleif Volu with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate, devout population of 5.561 billion Ouidfolk 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 Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Freyr's. The average income tax rate is 77.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ouidish economy, worth 576 trillion Nikeloes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,754 Nikeloes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Strange lights seen in the sky are officially regarded as weather balloons or hoaxes and nothing else, libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it, the main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story, and the government insists that a ghost voted ten million times in the last election. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ouidland's national animal is the Parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Islam.

Ouidland is ranked 130,938^th in the world and 1,005^th in Europe for Safest, scoring 68.05 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.