The Republic of Ottterland is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by President Slider The Otter with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, avowedly heterosexual populace, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 5.986 billion Otterlandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Otterland City. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Otterlandian economy, worth 909 trillion Otter Dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 151,957 Otter Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas, many marriages end in murder, the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills, and history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ottterland's national animal is the Otter 🦦, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Otterevangelistic chistianity.

Ottterland is ranked 1,272^nd in the world and 23^rd in Europe for Safest, scoring 157.76 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.