The State of Ordeme is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The quiet, industrious population of 15.689 billion Ordemeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 52.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Ordemean economy, worth 396 trillion betales a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 25,258 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, gambling is outlawed, Ordeme has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Ordeme in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ordeme's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ordeme is ranked 99,546^th in the world and 1^st in Republic of Brazil for Most Beautiful Environments, with 566.47 pounds of wildlife per square mile.