The Sleepy Orion Beary Way of Spooky Orion Bowshock is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Sleepy Orion Chief the SPOOKY with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 37.527 billion Sleepy Orion Carebears are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Sleepy Orion Ecumenopolis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Sleepy Carebeary economy, worth a remarkable 8,747 trillion Sleepy Orion Bamboos a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 233,093 Sleepy Orion Bamboos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, losing your sock key may require surgical intervention, new regulations have put a halt to monkey business, and CEOs are forced to cut coupons during important conference calls to make ends meet. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spooky Orion Bowshock's national animal is the Sleepy Orion Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sleepy Orion Beary Catholic.

Spooky Orion Bowshock is ranked 271^st in the world and 19^th in The North Pacific for Safest, scoring 196.1 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.