The Switch of ON is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by ON ON with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 22.85 billion ONians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ON. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.9%.

The frighteningly efficient ONian economy, worth a remarkable 3,850 trillion ons 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, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Soda Sales. 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 an impressive 168,510 ons, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 583,104 per year while the poor average 35,583, a ratio of 16.4 to 1.

Citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, and the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ON's national animal is the on, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ON is ranked 70,772^nd in the world and 4,115^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 69.96 law-abiding acts per hour.