The Colony of Orange 13 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, public floggings, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed population of 4.303 billion Orange 13ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Orange 13ian economy, worth 480 trillion Oranges a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 111,690 Oranges, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Police shut down children's lemonade stands for being "unsavory street food", thieves claim they're simply working for the tax agency, foreign nationals are widely distrusted, and wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Orange 13's national animal is the Eastern box turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Orange 13 is ranked 315,390^th in the world and 287^th in Bingos Puppet Sanctuary for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 14.79 on the Kitten Softness Rating.