The Hundred Oaker Forest of Oaks 59 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its triple-decker prams, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 10.723 billion Oaks 59ians 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 enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 81.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Oaks 59ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,410 trillion planets 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Soda Sales. 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 131,521 planets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause, calling dibs is an unalienable right, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, and kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oaks 59's national animal is the falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Oaks 59 is ranked 46,334^th in the world and 13^th in Primitiveness for Smartest Citizens, with 43.34 quips per hour.