The planetary economy is focused on the sea. Chemical manufacturing is large industry on the planet and makes up approximately half of Osiris' exports. The extreme pressure in the depths of the ocean has resulted in large deposits of fossil fuels which, due to the mining techniques that have emerged as byproducts of military testing at the Underwater Research Facility, fuel the industry. The thousands of specifies of fish and mammals in the oceans of Osiris provide almost all of planet's other exports and fuel the booming fishing industry on planet. The typical city will support at least four separate fishing fleets, ranging in size from two to twenty vessels, seagoing trawlers using mile wide nets and harmonic vibration to locate and catch their cargoes. Returning to their docks and bases their cargoes are processed and split between internal sales and exports to the surrounding worlds.

The extraction of the chemical components and fossil fuels from the seabed is handled by dedicated flotillas of seagoing vessels, usually numbering at least a half-dozen tenders and a mobile drilling platform, its advanced technology and specialization allowing it to move from resource field to resource field, accessing even the deepest pockets of oil and gas. The tenders support and maintain their platform, assisting in the transport of the platform and the lightering of its cargo onto dedicated tankers, orbital freighters lifting the extracted materials, processed on the platform to a certain degree, to the orbital storage facilities that facilitate its export.

Though the fishing and chemical industries boom on Osiris, there is very little other industry. Because of this, many basic good, such as cleaning, hygiene, and non-aquatic food products must be imported. The planetary government is one of the largest clients of the various food industries on Sif. In addition, the majority of technology on Osiris is imported from other worlds, and there are luxuries, save those made of fish bones, that are not imported.