The Most Venerable Polis of Ortigia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Delegates of the Council of Ten with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.922 billion Ortigians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aretusa. The average income tax rate is 87.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ortigian economy, worth 224 trillion Drachmas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 116,930 Drachmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign musicians that Delegates of the Council of Ten dislikes are turned away at the border, snitches get riches, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, and explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ortigia's national animal is the Aquila, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ortigia is ranked 265,818^th in the world and 1,189^th in Europe for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 15,084.05 Standard Monetary Units.