The United Socialist States of The Oass is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Prime Minister James Decroix with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.203 billion Oassians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ösburg. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Oassian economy, worth 162 trillion Réals a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,418 Réals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, senior literature classes are left analysing why Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is so darn sunny, colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great Oassian Liberator", and Jennifer Government is banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Oass's national animal is the Sparrow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Oass is ranked 16,598^th in the world and 425^th in The East Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,157.31 pounds of wildlife per square mile.