The Commonwealth of The Greater Ohio Valley is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Travis Wood with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, rampant corporate plagiarism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 24.429 billion Ohioans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Columbus. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ohioan economy, worth a remarkable 4,833 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 197,852 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, the tinfoil-hat crowd also recommend tinfoil wallets, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, and minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Greater Ohio Valley's national animal is the Cardinal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Greater Ohio Valley is ranked 4,814^th in the world and 1^st in United Nations of Earth for Lowest Crime Rates, with 117.39 law-abiding acts per hour.