The Dark and gloomy tunnels of Oorgle Borgle is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by John Strong with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 5.223 billion Oorgle Borgles are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oorgville. The average income tax rate is 39.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Oorgle Borglean economy, worth 607 trillion Oorgs 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, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 an impressive 116,403 Oorgs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All beauty contests have been banned, if they thought anyone would listen the older generation would likely say that nobody listens to them any more, pootling steam trains carry delighted tourists and frustrated businessmen from city to city at a snail's pace, and holiday light displays just aren't the same without seizure-inducing strobe effects. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oorgle Borgle's national animal is the Warg, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Graaah.

Oorgle Borgle is ranked 56,814^th in the world and 13^th in The Empires And Republics Of Power for Lowest Crime Rates, with 72.47 law-abiding acts per hour.