The Empire of Oathori is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 842 million Oathorians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Locus Scientiae. The average income tax rate is 60.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Oathorian economy, worth 74.2 trillion Oreos a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 88,173 Oreos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience, immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations, and unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oathori's national animal is the Griffon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Oathori is ranked 80,505^th in the world and 6^th in Continental Coalition for Most Corrupt Governments, with 20.36 kickbacks per hour.