The Blessed Principality of Saint Obed is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Matthieu de Saint-Obed with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 4.718 billion Obediens 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint-Obed. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Obedien economy, worth 311 trillion bezants a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 65,992 bezants, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is on the rise as online youths compete to vlog the most shocking scenes of violence, dessert dishes make up the Obedien breakfast menu, the government funds large training centres to turn lambs into functioning members of society, and conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Obed's national animal is the lamb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Saint Obed is ranked 30,050^th in the world and 1,900^th in Osiris for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 6,372.06 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.