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The Republic of OTW is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Louis Chatterham with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, triple-decker prams, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 983 million OTWians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ordo City. The average income tax rate is 24.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong OTWian economy, worth 76.7 trillion Gallo-Germanian Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 78,074 Gallo-Germanian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Meat-eating is frowned upon, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, and the latest political memes depict Louis Chatterham as an overly-choreographed robot. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. OTW's national animal is the Duck, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

OTW is ranked 12,727^th in the world and 65^th in Europe for Most Authoritarian, with 4,040.53 milliStalins.