The Disputed Territories of OptionOners is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Ltd First Class with an even hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.565 billion First-Optioners are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of An unnamed place. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.4%.

The frighteningly efficient First economy, worth a remarkable 1,720 trillion florins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 200,888 florins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 781,360 per year while the poor average 35,313, a ratio of 22.1 to 1.

It's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, citizens need to demonstrate a complete set of dental records to throw five bucks in a hobo's hat, and caroling is considered a public disturbance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. OptionOners's national animal is the FirstBorn, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The First Choice.

OptionOners is ranked 147,197^th in the world and 57^th in Equilism for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,359.1 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.