The Colony of Realm of The Oort Cloud is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Ernest Öpik with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.339 billion Realm of The Oort Cloudians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nibiru. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.6%.

The very strong Realm of The Oort Cloudian economy, worth 468 trillion Platinum Ingots a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 63,807 Platinum Ingots, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 329,951 per year while the poor average 6,706, a ratio of 49.2 to 1.

Citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys, thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, and restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Realm of The Oort Cloud's national animal is the Face Mite, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Trans-Neptunian Objects.

Realm of The Oort Cloud is ranked 7,720^th in the world and 1^st in An Island In Space for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 9,185.58 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.