The Republic of Odyssee is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions, disturbing lack of elderly people, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 663 million Odysseeans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illiad. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The powerhouse Odysseean economy, worth 64.4 trillion coins a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 97,116 coins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 294,428 per year while the poor average 24,909, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

Treaties are taken to be mere rules of thumb, baiting is a national sport, the aims of top-secret Odysseean science projects revolve around designing the perfect robot woman, and private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Odyssee's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Odyssee is ranked 164,895^th in the world and 78^th in Hive for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 1,502.44 on the Hickory Productivity Index.