The Sleepy Orion Beary Way of Spooky Orion Bowshock is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Sleepy Orion Chief the SPOOKY with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 33.568 billion Sleepy Orion Carebears 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, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Sleepy Orion Ecumenopolis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Sleepy Carebeary economy, worth a remarkable 7,720 trillion Sleepy Orion Bamboos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 230,009 Sleepy Orion Bamboos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly, the only soporific permitted during sermons is the preacher's voice, loudmouthed journalists are given the chop, and Sleepy Orion Beary Catholic now admits men and women into its clergy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spooky Orion Bowshock's national animal is the Sleepy Orion Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sleepy Orion Beary Catholic.

Spooky Orion Bowshock is ranked 7,136^th in the world and 221^st in The North Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 230,009.48 Standard Monetary Units.