The Republic of Desert Owl is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.539 billion Desert Owlians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 42.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Desert Owlian economy, worth 110 trillion sands 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, quite specialized black market in Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 16,844 sands, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government tries not to listen to the people unless it absolutely has to, human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, and parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Desert Owl's national animal is the Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Desert Owl is ranked 101,989^th in the world and 6^th in desert for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.61 law-abiding acts per hour.