The Principality of Shiny Orb is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, ubiquitous missile silos, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed population of 9.468 billion Shiny Orbians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 44.7%.

The powerhouse Shiny Orbian economy, worth 930 trillion Shiny Orbs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,256 Shiny Orbs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The nation solves other countries' human rights problems with a generous dose of violence, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, and prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shiny Orb's national animal is the Shiny Orb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Shiny Orb is ranked 7,322^nd in the world and 1^st in The Apexialan Commonwealth for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 9,565.94 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.