The Empire of Orderstia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 316 million Orderstians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 66.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Orderstian economy, worth 12.6 trillion Kitheoplean Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 39,730 Kitheoplean Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations, and leather-clad individuals can be seen walking their slaves in public parks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Orderstia's national animal is the Orderstia Mothman.

Orderstia is ranked 170,048^th in the world and 5^th in The Black Dahlia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 501.65 pounds of wildlife per square mile.