The Dáxlamic Empire of Obstruction is a massive, safe nation, ruled by If you know you know with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The cynical, devout population of 4.26 billion Obstructionians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Law & Order, with Spirituality, Defense, and Education also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City of Sam. The average income tax rate is 47.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Obstructionian economy, worth 310 trillion leverages 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, fairly diversified black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 72,983 leverages, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, ten-year-olds regularly found their own political parties, the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned, and an extra-long museum is being built to house the old border wall. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Obstruction's national animal is the finger in the dam, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is If you know you know.

Obstruction is ranked 140,929^th in the world and 62^nd in Declansburg for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 38,608.29 Standard Monetary Units.