The United Socialist States of Ottia is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.688 billion Ottians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garvida. The average income tax rate is 72.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Ottian economy, worth 143 trillion Garbels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Tourism, and Soda Sales. Average income is 25,175 Garbels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Deceased politicians' MyFace profiles are unanimously pro-incumbent, power to the people comes from the barrel of a gun, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, and a proud mining community is considering a rebellion after the Capital officially renamed them 'District XII'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ottia's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Ottia is ranked 299,470^th in the world and 2^nd in Canopy Command for Highest Average Incomes, with 25,175.13 Standard Monetary Units.