The Commonwealth of Orange O is a massive, pleasant nation, renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, ban on automobiles, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.458 billion Orange Oians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 29.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Orange Oian economy, worth 90.7 trillion Oranges a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,197 Oranges, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Drive-by spoilers are an increasingly common crime, weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", and centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Orange O's national animal is the Eastern Box Turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Orange O is ranked 53,385^th in the world and 61^st in Bingos Puppet Sanctuary for Most Conservative, scoring 76.08 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.