The Imperial Democracy of Great Ostanian Republic is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Administrator Fox Voroshilov with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.743 billion citizens of Ostans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City-17. The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient a citizen of Ostan economy, worth 320 trillion Ostanian credits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 116,730 Ostanian credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Money grows on trees, foreign football clubs wave the a citizen of Ostan flag before every game, vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR, and Citizens of Ostans are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna. 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 24,317^th in the world and 580^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 250.47 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.