The Hyperborean State of Ostrinios is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ostyhan Ier with a fair hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, smutty television, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 7.916 billion Ostriniosians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ostrinopolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Ostriniosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,819 trillion Aurums a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 229,854 Aurums, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 959,082 per year while the poor average 35,958, a ratio of 26.7 to 1.

Fast-food chefs regularly win Health Innovation Awards for spitting on burgers, the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene, many marriages go virtually unconsummated, and criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ostrinios's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ostriniosism.

Ostrinios is ranked 129,800^th in the world and 7,146^th in The North Pacific for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 444.06 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.