The Commonwealth of Oyster Rock is a huge, safe nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 708 million Oyster Rockers hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haugheye Cape. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Oyster Rockian economy, worth 61.5 trillion Rocks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 86,930 Rocks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Haugheye Cape Natural History Museum, home renovation projects take decades to complete, Oyster Rockian watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, and t-shirts displaying a photo of Leader performing the Full-Monty are selling out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oyster Rock's national animal is the Oyster, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Oyster Rock is ranked 238,779^th in the world and 169^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Primitive, scoring -100.09 on the Scary Big Number Scale.