The Future Past Regrets of Oriax is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 2.191 billion Oriaxians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 64.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Oriaxian economy, worth 32.2 trillion Revolutions 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 Tourism, Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 14,711 Revolutions, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teen boys and girls find stick-figure-aided lectures on their comradestruation emphasises socialist unity more than biology, main battle tanks stalk the woods of Oriax in search of Imps, museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts, and social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oriax's national animal is the Imp, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Oriax is ranked 243,320^th in the world and 13^th in Abraxas for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 30 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.