The Patroonship of Fort Orange is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its national health service, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 2.708 billion Fort Orangeans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beverwyck. The average income tax rate is 25.7%.

The powerhouse Fort Orangean economy, worth 271 trillion Kroners a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 100,252 Kroners, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech, Tetris has been banned for its graphic violent content, the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried Beaver Dung" has been declared a national treasure, and unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fort Orange's national animal is the Beaver, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Fort Orange is ranked 247,223^rd in the world and 7^th in Upstate for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.66 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.