The Commonwealth of Orange A is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its teetotalling pirates, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.121 billion Orange Aians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Orange Aian economy, worth 188 trillion Cards a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 89,053 Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia, baby dolls thrown in the trash are a leading cause of panic attacks, five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred revivals is how theatre-goers measure a year, and fresh food is a thing of the past due to onerous testing standards. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Orange A's national animal is the card, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Orange A is ranked 305,587^th in the world and 25^th in Bingos Puppet Sanctuary for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -3.16 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.