The Isolated Country of Olio is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Samaduki Gase Jakeqa with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 977 million Wulzys love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 34.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Stupid economy, worth 28.4 trillion Quarter Olio Coins 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 Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. 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 29,038 Quarter Olio Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies, major cities are suffering under water rationing, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, and obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals. Crime is totally unknown. Olio's national animal is the Skin-Stealers, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Olio is ranked 98,691^st in the world and 2^nd in FLAMES OF CHAOS for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,245.85 on the Hickory Productivity Index.