The Imperial Democracy of Great Ostanian Republic is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Administrator Fox Voroshilov with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.657 billion citizens of Ostans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City-17. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient a citizen of Ostan economy, worth 317 trillion Ostanian credits a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,346 Ostanian credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-Ostanian credit treacle machine, people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, and binoculars sales are at an all-time high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Ostanian Republic's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Faith in the Emperor.

Great Ostanian Republic is ranked 31,694^th in the world and 804^th in the South Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 816.8 pounds of wildlife per square mile.