The Empire of Orionas is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-working, democratic population of 90 million Orionasians are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 14.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Orionasian economy, worth 5.39 trillion EOS a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 59,854 EOS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines, edutainment video games are taking Orionas's students to the next level, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, and a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Orionas's national animal is the tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Orionas is ranked 245,919^th in the world and 4,239^th in The East Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.39 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.