The Most Serene Republic of Oceananopolis is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 546 million Oceananopolisians 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 medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nereus. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.6%.

The powerhouse Oceananopolisian economy, worth 42.3 trillion Nautiluses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,559 Nautiluses, with the richest citizens earning 7.7 times as much as the poorest.

Withdrawal of support for drug addicts is leaving many with cold sweats, sociologists can charge whatever fee they like as the nation tries to find itself, it turns out that money can buy you happiness, and getting an abortion takes less hassle than writing a letter. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oceananopolis's national animal is the Dolphin.

Oceananopolis is ranked 68,399^th in the world and 221^st in the Outback for Most Developed, scoring 71.47 on the Human Development Index.