The Oak Trees of Great Hautbois is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Lord Bure with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 20.153 billion Great Hautboisians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Buxton-with-Lamas. The average income tax rate is 64.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Great Hautboisian economy, worth a remarkable 4,395 trillion Swedes a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 218,123 Swedes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Bureaucrats close new businesses for not complying with the Penguin Packaging Index, edutainment video games are taking Great Hautbois's students to the next level, the government spends millions of Swedes every year prosecuting spammers, and the government is deliberately installing bloatware onto computers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Hautbois's national animal is the Pheasant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Aborealism.

Great Hautbois is ranked 285,108^th in the world and 305^th in Forest for Nicest Citizens, with 0.29 average smiles per day.