The Grand Earldom of Orkney-Shetland is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Earl Protector Charles Wright with an even hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 4.788 billion Orcadians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirkwall. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Orkney-Shetlandian economy, worth 579 trillion Kirks 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 led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 120,953 Kirks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military struggles with recruitment, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Orkney-Shetland's national animal is the Atlantic Puffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Atheism.

Orkney-Shetland is ranked 211,664^th in the world and 177^th in Empire of Great Britain for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,406.21 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.