The Eternal Nothingness of Oblivion is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by No One with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, complete lack of public education, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.578 billion Lost Souls 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 tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nowhere. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Lost economy, worth a remarkable 1,224 trillion deep longings a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 127,832 deep longings, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 407,885 per year while the poor average 30,456, a ratio of 13.4 to 1.

Schoolyard bullying has a tendency to escalate, the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks", it's said that a Lost Soul always pays his debts with significant compounding, and bombs make good ploughs. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Oblivion's national animal is the fleeting shadow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Nothing.

Oblivion is ranked 78,430^th in the world and 11^th in Astral Sea for Most Patriotic, with 21 flags saluted per person per day.