The Republic of Origlen is a mid-sized, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, democratic population of 68 million Origlenians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The thriving Origlenian economy, worth 4.02 trillion Provincial Talers a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 59,056 Provincial Talers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 262,081 per year while the poor average 8,300, a ratio of 31.6 to 1.

Business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, edutainment video games are taking Origlen's students to the next level, the entire entry for Origlen in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', and lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences". Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Origlen's national animal is the Provincial Dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Origlen is ranked 72,228^th in the world and 5^th in Urcea for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,133.85 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.