The Armed Republic of Loranuclear is a titanic, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.827 billion Loranians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.3%.

The very strong Loranian economy, worth 758 trillion rubledollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 70,025 rubledollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 332,246 per year while the poor average 8,709, a ratio of 38.1 to 1.

Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Loranuclear's national animal is the hawk, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Loranuclear is ranked 91,476^th in the world and 2^nd in ATOMIC for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 12,465.7 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.