The Armed Republic of Ondoria is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Rubert Dillinger Skouma with an iron fist, and renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, zero percent divorce rate, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 13.387 billion Ondorians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ondoriapolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ondorian economy, worth a remarkable 2,427 trillion Marks 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 181,305 Marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 570,343 per year while the poor average 44,098, a ratio of 12.9 to 1.

Children complain that school food is too flavorful, half of Ondorian history is deemed too unpatriotic to be mentioned in textbooks, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, and Harry Potter books are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ondoria's national animal is the Anglerfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Rastafarian.

Ondoria is ranked 318,348^th in the world and 257^th in Shadow Realms for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -10.12 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.