The Federation of Okrug is a titanic, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, fear of technology, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 12.518 billion Okrugians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.2%.

The Okrugian economy, worth 534 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Gambling, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,711 marks, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

Postcards from Okrugian driving test centres are popular souvenirs, raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, and teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Okrug's national animal is the penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Okrug is ranked 297,994^th in the world and 8^th in Artic for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.66 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.