The Republic of Ottterland is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by President Slider The Otter with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, pith helmet sales, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 7.251 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 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Otterlandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,064 trillion Otter Dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 146,804 Otter Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, Max Barry is this year's Miss Ottterland, and children of nonreligious parents are often barred from school festival events. 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.

Ottterland is ranked 279,270^th in the world and 1,354^th in Europe for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -6.63 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.