The State of O9YU is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of public education, restrictive gun laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 16.209 billion O9YUians 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 minute, moralistic government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.6%.

The very strong O9YUian economy, worth 375 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. Average income is 23,144 betales, with the richest citizens earning 7.5 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary, O9YU has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of O9YU in an international press conference. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. O9YU's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

O9YU is ranked 122,630^th in the world and 104^th in The Federation of Independent Nations for Highest Food Quality, scoring 19.08 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.