The Socialist Republic of Osterhalten is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Wilbur DeVoss with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.522 billion Osterhaltiennes are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dreamcliff. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Osterhaltenian economy, worth 768 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 117,800 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Finders keepers is the law of the land, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it... Osterhaltenian satellites can detect it, corrupt officials have adopted the greater good as their catchphrase, and cultural heritage is measured in Scoville Heat Units. Crime is totally unknown. Osterhalten's national animal is the river otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Osterhalten is ranked 12,025^th in the world and 6^th in Esportiva for Most Secular, with 88.69 Atheism Rate.