First, I'd think this would be an enum.  Second, you'd probably want to
embed this in your Order class, which knows about its own status.
Other projects which need to know order status would likely ask this
order class.

HTH
Andy

I do mine like this:

     public enum ExampleEnum
     {
      [Description("MyUnknownDescription")]    Unknown    = 0
      [Description("Items of this enum are the coolest")]    SuperCool    =
1
     }

Ok.. then I have a EnumHelper.

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Xml;

namespace MyCompany.Enums
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for EnumHelper.
/// </summary>
public class EnumHelper
{
 private EnumHelper()
 {
  //only static methods
 }

 public static string GetDescription(System.Enum  value)
 {

  //if a description is defined for an enum value, this procedure will get
it

  //Example of defining a description with an enum value
  /*
   *

    public enum ExampleEnum
    {
     [Description("MyUnknownDescription")]    Unknown    = 0
    }

   *
   * */

  FieldInfo fi= value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString());
  DescriptionAttribute[] attributes =
(DescriptionAttribute[])fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute),
false);
  return (attributes.Length>0)?attributes[0].Description:value.ToString();

 }

}

I kinda get the best of both worlds.
I use the enums as enums 99% of the time.

But I have get a long description if I ever need it.