The Dominion of Orbitus is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by A'rril Anemait with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, national health service, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 7.262 billion Orbitans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aren'thain. The average income tax rate is 47.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Orbitan economy, worth 887 trillion orbitan crowns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 122,181 orbitan crowns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, there are traffic jams at sea as diligent customs officers check every part of every ship, the military sees national borders more as guidelines than absolutes, and money always talks but the taboo subject of death just brings silence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Orbitus's national animal is the snake, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Origin.

Orbitus is ranked 317,574^th in the world and 184^th in The Kodiak Republic for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -9.84 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.