The Armed Republic of Loradioactive Desert is a titanic, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 10.751 billion Loranians 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 relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.4%.

The strong Loranian economy, worth 467 trillion rubledollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 43,520 rubledollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 246,322 per year while the poor average 3,767, a ratio of 65.4 to 1.

Anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, Harry Potter books are banned, surveillance cameras are banned, and a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Loradioactive Desert's national animal is the hawk, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Loradioactive Desert is ranked 284,309^th in the world and 18^th in ATOMIC for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -33.17 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.