The Disputed Territories of Obstinacy is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 43.813 billion Obstinacyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The minute, socially-minded government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Education, although Defense is also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare receive no funds. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Obstinacyian economy, worth an astonishing 20,065 trillion pelves a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Tourism. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 457,974 pelves, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Graffiti graces every city's streets, old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime, political dissidents are cut off from essential services, and the ongoing space elevator construction project has elevated the national debt to all new levels. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Obstinacy's national animal is the dodo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Obstinacy is ranked 4,864^th in the world and 15^th in Wysteria for Most Cultured, scoring 171 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.