The People's Republic of Ormesta is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 631 million Ormestan Subjects are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mega-City One. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Ormestan state economy, worth 76.5 trillion Social Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 121,182 Social Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,095,640 per year while the poor average 1,606, a ratio of 682 to 1.

On graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons, the Ormestan state Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation, confused-looking pigeons slide gently off frictionless window ledges, and foreign workers are flooding in as Social Credits flood out. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ormesta's national animal is the Beholder, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ormesta is ranked 95,052^nd in the world and 251^st in Council of Asia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,453.77 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.