The Emirate of Opune is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and frequent executions. The compassionate, devout population of 2.235 billion Opuneans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Opune City. The average income tax rate is 89.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Opunean economy, worth 188 trillion dinars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Tourism, and Information Technology. Average income is 84,503 dinars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, and contestants on Opune's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Opune's national animal is the Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Opune is ranked 233,645^th in the world and 125^th in Africa for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.91 kickbacks per hour.