Population | 11.25 billion |
Capital | Xanadu Pleasure-Dome |
Leader | Matriarch Gaila |
Faith | Green Goddess |
Currency | slave |
Animal | cow |
The Holy Matriarchy of Orion Cartel is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Matriarch Gaila with an iron fist, and notable for its ritual sacrifices, compulsory military service, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 11.25 billion Orion Cartelians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.
The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Welfare and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xanadu Pleasure-Dome. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Orion Cartelian economy, worth a remarkable 2,641 trillion slaves a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 234,827 slaves, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,428,175 per year while the poor average 17,134, a ratio of 83.3 to 1.
NationStates staff are easily recognizable by their gold-plated mansions, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, the Xanadu Pleasure-Dome Pride Parade's head banner explains how unionizing is heteronormative, and unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Orion Cartel's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Green Goddess.
Orion Cartel is ranked 13,724th in the world and 177th in the Rejected Realms for Most Stationary, with 1,879.36030415308 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Orion Cartel was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Stationary.
- : Orion Cartel was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Zombified and Most Dead.
- : Orion Cartel was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Stationary.
- : Orion Cartel was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Stationary.
- : Orion Cartel was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Stationary.
- : Orion Cartel was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Manufacturing Sector.
- : Following new legislation in Orion Cartel, unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne.
- : Following new legislation in Orion Cartel, the Xanadu Pleasure-Dome Pride Parade's head banner explains how unionizing is heteronormative.
- : Following new legislation in Orion Cartel, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away.
- : Following new legislation in Orion Cartel, NationStates staff are easily recognizable by their gold-plated mansions.