The Republic of New Ostlands is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Chancellor Barton with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, keen interest in outer space, and public floggings. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 7.203 billion Ostlanders 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, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Regensburg. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Ostlander economy, worth a remarkable 1,116 trillion Goldmarks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,046 Goldmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is famous for bravely sending wave after wave of its soldiers until the enemy runs out of bullets, napalm is the tool of choice for disabling eco-unfriendly forestry operations, chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on, and buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Ostlands's national animal is the Cockatoo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

New Ostlands is ranked 275,555^th in the world and 10,582^nd in Osiris for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 7,442.24 Standard Monetary Units.