The United Socialist States of Onraka is a small, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 32 million Onrakans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 75.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Onrakan economy, worth 404 billion Solars 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 12,646 Solars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, parents dread their examinations more than their children, and Onraka's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Onraka's national animal is the Leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Onraka is ranked 228,951^st in the world and 722^nd in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.48 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.