The Bloom of Cloud Orchestra is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 2.613 billion Cloud Orchestrans 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 relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Public Transport, and Education. The average income tax rate is 20.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Cloud Orchestran economy, worth 96.6 trillion mlems 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. 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 36,954 mlems, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, and visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Cloud Orchestra's national animal is the kat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cloud Orchestra is ranked 133,993^rd in the world and 7^th in Abraxas for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 79.69 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.