The State of Orse is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 32.83 billion Orseans 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, pro-business morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.7%.

The powerhouse Orsean economy, worth a remarkable 1,369 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. Average income is 41,702 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 169,086 per year while the poor average 6,846, a ratio of 24.7 to 1.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, Orse has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, the Governor has just been declared ruler of Orse in an international press conference, and a major religion has been named as Orse's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Orse's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Orse is ranked 50,952^nd in the world and 2^nd in Senegal for Most Primitive, scoring 53.85 on the Scary Big Number Scale.