The Commonwealth of Orbium is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 530 million Orbiumians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Orbiumian economy, worth 12.1 trillion poops a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 22,823 poops, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, lobotomies haven't been the same after the practice was severed, builders across Orbium are blocked up with orders for new public loos, and there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Orbium's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Orbium is ranked 61,269^th in the world and 87^th in The Kodiak Republic for Most Cultured, scoring 70 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.