The Invasive scent of Oil Paints is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Art with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, zero percent divorce rate, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 9.752 billion artists 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Turpentine. The average income tax rate is 64.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Oil Paintsian economy, worth 610 trillion cadmium yellows a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,581 cadmium yellows, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fire and brimstone sermons are accompanied by napalm and fragmentation bombs, female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked', taking hostages is a great way to influence government policy, and finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Oil Paints's national animal is the golden taklon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Painting.

Oil Paints is ranked 244,266^th in the world and 2,684^th in the West Pacific for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 903.29 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.