The Imperium of Obliquity is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Callidus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 31.143 billion Obliquitians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Welfare, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arecacea. The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Obliquityian economy, worth a remarkable 2,434 trillion Lottery Tickets a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 78,185 Lottery Tickets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Life is short but human kindness is endless, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, anti-vaxxers are right about the government injecting diseases into people, and park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Obliquity's national animal is the Politician, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Obliquity is ranked 4,053^rd in the world and 53^rd in New Western Empire for Most World Assembly Endorsements, with 27 Valid Endorsements.