The Commonwealth of Octivalo is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, national health service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, democratic population of 245 million Octivaloans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Octivaloan economy, worth 13.1 trillion pilloes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,532 pilloes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military officers are given medals for disobeying orders, war vets look after war animals, starry-eyed convention goers have their heads in the clouds, and banning party poppers has been a real party pooper. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Octivalo's national animal is the tiger.

Octivalo is ranked 151,595^th in the world and 580^th in Concord for Highest Average Incomes, with 53,532.92 Standard Monetary Units.