The Saklahani Oysterepublik of Oesterlund is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Oystergod with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.715 billion Oesters 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 Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kronekerstadt. The average income tax rate is 69.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Oester economy, worth 160 trillion thalmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 93,326 thalmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural, children are raised bilingual from an early age, the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem", and political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm. Crime is totally unknown. Oesterlund's national animal is the stallion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Vopiscanism.

Oesterlund is ranked 215,782^nd in the world and 77^th in Aesica for Largest Populations, with 1.72 billion capita.