The Republic of Ostro 3 is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.112 billion Ostro 3ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.7%.

The all-consuming Ostro 3ian economy, worth 832 trillion guilders 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, broadly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Tourism. 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 102,603 guilders, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 336,478 per year while the poor average 23,481, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

Scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied cobra, the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, and there's a hole in the heart of every Ostro 3ian city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ostro 3's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ostro 3 is ranked 259,217^th in the world and 131^st in Stygian Abbey for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 39.43 on the Kitten Softness Rating.