The Hundred Oaker Forest of Oaks 98 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its public floggings, ritual sacrifices, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.068 billion Oaks 98ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 59.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Oaks 98ian economy, worth 558 trillion planets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 137,267 planets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward, no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, and the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Oaks 98's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Oaks 98 is ranked 3,347^th in the world and 8^th in Artificial Solar System for Most Armed, with 12.49 Weapons Per Person.