The Empire of Oyada is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Emperor Shokiwe Naragan with an iron fist, and notable for its daily referendums, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 34.349 billion Oyadans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oyadato. The average income tax rate is 71.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Oyadan economy, worth a remarkable 6,196 trillion pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 180,390 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Bouncers at the door of the sweet shop warn five-year-olds not to cause trouble, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar, and mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oyada's national animal is the airhippo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is sun-worship.

Oyada is ranked 4,449^th in the world and 1^st in Concordat of Phoenix for Lowest Crime Rates, with 119.34 law-abiding acts per hour.