The Island Nations of Loreintor is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Halley with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 9.205 billion Loreintorians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lorein. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Loreintorian economy, worth 915 trillion Tors a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 99,424 Tors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, artists are pillars of society, flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, and biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Loreintor's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cereli.

Loreintor is ranked 47,854^th in the world and 577^th in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 188.12 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.