The Friederian Kingdom of Ossenburg is a massive, genial nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.204 billion Ossenburgians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oberhain. The average income tax rate is 15.5%.

The thriving Ossenburgish economy, worth 81.2 trillion Opiermarks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,468 Opiermarks, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, Ossenburg Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', lending money has become a major liability, and the Grinder at Fat Sal's Deli and Recycling Center is a national institution. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ossenburg's national animal is the Weiß Elch, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ossenburg is ranked 20,111^th in the world and 425^th in The East Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 53.38 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.