The Republic of The Orion Sword is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its complete lack of public education, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 28.732 billion Orion Swordians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.6%.

The thriving Orion Swordian economy, worth a remarkable 1,436 trillion warbucks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is 50,001 warbucks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 202,734 per year while the poor average 8,209, a ratio of 24.7 to 1.

Elections have been outlawed and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Orion Sword's national animal is the lepus.

The Orion Sword is ranked 67,405^th in the world and 4^th in Minnesota for Most Corrupt Governments, with 27.02 kickbacks per hour.