The Sleepy Orion Beary Way of Spooky Orion Bowshock is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Sleepy Orion Chief the SPOOKY with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 32.34 billion Sleepy Orion Carebears are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Sleepy Orion Ecumenopolis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Sleepy Carebeary economy, worth a remarkable 7,481 trillion Sleepy Orion Bamboos 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 mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 231,343 Sleepy Orion Bamboos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians have literally dirty hands from their extracurricular activities, statistics show that terrorists often come from broken families, reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic, and the banhammer is a standard police sidearm. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spooky Orion Bowshock's national animal is the Sleepy Orion Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sleepy Orion Beary Catholic.

Spooky Orion Bowshock is ranked 4,320^th in the world and 106^th in The North Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 245.09 kickbacks per hour.