The Republic of OffSpeed is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 334 million OffSpeedians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.9%.

The strong OffSpeedian economy, worth 20.3 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,798 Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, washing-up liquid looks and smells like baby poo, and Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. OffSpeed's national animal is the Unicorn, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

OffSpeed is ranked 237,270^th in the world and 38^th in Byzantion for Largest Populations, with 334 million capita.