The Federation of Obvi Gnovince is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 389 million Obvi Gnovinceans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 44.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Obvi Gnovincean economy, worth 14.9 trillion kronor a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,339 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game, the government is deliberately installing bloatware onto computers, you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health, and nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Obvi Gnovince's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Obvi Gnovince is ranked 102,869^th in the world and 4,168^th in Osiris for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,478.95 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.