Static background in a 3D world (OpenGL)

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I would like to set a static background that is not rotated or translated along with other game objects. How would you accomplish that in OpenGL?

By using a different transform for the background than for the other objects (most likely one that does not include the camera/view transform).

This can be accomplished either by simply doing things in a particular order (e.g. set up the 'background' transform and render the background, then set up the camera/view transform and render everything else), or by using glPushMatrix() and glPopMatrix() to isolate the background transform from any previous transforms.