The Bloom of Cloud Orchestra is a colossal, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 2.638 billion Cloud Orchestrans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Public Transport, Healthcare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 24.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Cloud Orchestran economy, worth 102 trillion mlems a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Cheese Exports, Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 38,839 mlems, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, skateparks can be found in every city, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, and the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cloud Orchestra's national animal is the kat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Cloud Orchestra is ranked 147,247^th in the world and 8^th in Abraxas for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,589.41 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.