The Three Clans of Ovisnia is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Praetor Maximus Noecellis with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, devout population of 777 million Ovisnians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nivis. The average income tax rate is 85.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Ovisnian economy, worth 80.3 trillion Nias 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. 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 103,311 Nias, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ovisnia's national animal is the Wildcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ovisnia is ranked 20,720^th in the world and 46^th in Declansburg for Highest Food Quality, scoring 114.82 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.