The Dominion of Ormeda Depression is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The devout population of 2.299 billion Ormeda Depressionians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 55.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Ormeda Depressionian economy, worth 189 trillion Imperial Dollars 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 82,247 Imperial Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Leader's former secretary was last sighted on her new yacht, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade, and nobody knows why the caged Argyrean Tobacco Dog sings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ormeda Depression's national animal is the Argyrean Tobacco Dog, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Ormeda Depression is ranked 59,897^th in the world and 3^rd in Urcean Civilization for Smartest Citizens, with 40.81 quips per hour.