The United Socialist States of The Oass is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister James Decroix with an even hand, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.196 billion Oassians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ösburg. The average income tax rate is 92.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Oassian economy, worth 162 trillion Réals a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,935 Réals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Torture is illegal, kids are gathering at the local soda shop to celebrate staying out past sundown, police officers find government bureaucracy more terrifying than most serial killers, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Oass's national animal is the Sparrow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Oass is ranked 259,780^th in the world and 4,460^th in The East Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.92 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.