The Republic of Oliveret is a small, efficient nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 29 million Oliveretians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.3%.

The thriving Oliveretian economy, worth 1.81 trillion olivertams a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Tourism, and Soda Sales. Average income is 62,517 olivertams, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 221,290 per year while the poor average 12,752, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Crime is a problem. Oliveret's national animal is the Russian tortoise, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Oliveret is ranked 106,411^th in the world and 1,906^th in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 82.76 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.