The Holy Matriarchy of Orion Cartel is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Matriarch Gaila with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, infamous sell-swords, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 11.358 billion Orion Cartelians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Welfare and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xanadu Pleasure-Dome. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Orion Cartelian economy, worth a remarkable 2,667 trillion slaves a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 234,827 slaves, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,428,175 per year while the poor average 17,134, a ratio of 83.3 to 1.

NationStates staff are easily recognizable by their gold-plated mansions, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, the Xanadu Pleasure-Dome Pride Parade's head banner explains how unionizing is heteronormative, and unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Orion Cartel's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Green Goddess.

Orion Cartel is ranked 293,054^th in the world and 7,229^th in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 4.54 law-abiding acts per hour.