The Federal Republic of Okto is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 841 million Actanians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 31.1%.

The strong Oktoan economy, worth 45.2 trillion Oktinaries a year, is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,769 Oktinaries, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Untold millions of Oktinaries are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, education is transforming people into first-rate snobs, in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, and Okto has designated Okto City as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Okto's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Okto is ranked 48,040^th in the world and 134^th in Concord for Highest Food Quality, scoring 34.34 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.