The Community of Otherwhere is a mid-sized, genial nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 56 million Otherwhereans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 40.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Otherwherean economy, worth 2.81 trillion benchmarks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,143 benchmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Janitors and interns go on luxury retreats while the desks are cleared by the C-Suite, the government loves seeing the little people fight, fruit market traders let their stock spoil rather than reduce their prices at the day's end, and soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Otherwhere's national animal is the raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Otherwhere is ranked 151,148^th in the world and 434^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Developed, scoring 55.93 on the Human Development Index.