The Troisième République of Opalaland is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President Laura Roslin with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, democratic, cheerful population of 32.135 billion Opalalandais hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bibliotheque. The average income tax rate is 31.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Opalalandais economy, worth a remarkable 7,781 trillion opiates a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 242,152 opiates, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

President Laura Roslin reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes, parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend, the government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores, and the "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Opalalandais Navy. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Opalaland's national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Opalaland is ranked 32,002^nd in the world and 86^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 6,120.33 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.