The Colony of Orange 12 is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, avowedly heterosexual populace, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.457 billion Orange 12ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Administration, Defense, and Environment are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.9%.

The strong Orange 12ian economy, worth 93.2 trillion Oranges a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,933 Oranges, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 233,724 per year while the poor average 12,405, a ratio of 18.8 to 1.

Spies caught red-handed are served cocktails on their first-class flights home, the nation's apology for those it has executed in the last year has come a little late for some, citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious, and disputed territories across Bingos Puppet Sanctuary are being claimed by Orange 12ian college students. Crime is a major problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Orange 12's national animal is the Eastern box turtle , which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Orange 12 is ranked 125,050^th in the world and 12^th in Bingos Puppet Sanctuary for Nudest, with 150.5 cheeks per square mile.