The Fiefdom of Ostenburg is a very large, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 255 million Ostenburgians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.1%.

The very strong Ostenburgian economy, worth 15.0 trillion Osten Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Gambling. Average income is 59,004 Osten Marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 202,429 per year while the poor average 12,622, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

Food voucher forgeries are causing headaches for the police, fiscal policy hawks decry the sizable "panem et circenses" fund added to the public budget, police drones follow every suspected Peeping Tom, and Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ostenburg's national animal is the Ram, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ostenburg is ranked 131,364^th in the world and 1^st in The Great Eastern Fields for Highest Average Incomes, with 59,004.11 Standard Monetary Units.