The Old Kothic Sleeper of Okami Yaiba is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 14.476 billion Okami Yaibans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government prioritizes Administration, although Industry, Welfare, and Defense are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 45.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Okami Yaiban economy, worth 396 trillion yen a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 27,396 yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Superfoods are often seen as supervillains, professional athletes juggle part-time jobs to avoid bankruptcy, all industry is owned and run by the government, and homeowners on prime real estate have been seen dodging giant bulldozers with cartoon characters painted on them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Okami Yaiba's national animal is the okami, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.