The Colony of Object of Desire Island is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, devout population of 2.132 billion Object-of-Desire Islanders are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 33.9%.

The very strong Object-of-Desire Insular economy, worth 110 trillion scudoes a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 51,687 scudoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Students are taught to count with all 9 fingers, paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs, university admissions staff are blindfolded to prevent accidental bias, and cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Object of Desire Island's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Object of Desire Island is ranked 89,870^th in the world and 5^th in Polychrome Archipelago for Most Developed, scoring 64.13 on the Human Development Index.