If the software allows for modeling that kind of thing. There's two ways you could model a piece's orientation in the code: Either relative to its initial stat

If the software allows for modeling that kind of thing. There's two ways you could model a piece's orientation in the code: Either relative to its initial state, or relative to some external/objective reference point. The latter would allow you to say, "The initial state looks like the traditional solved state except that this one piece is flipped." Otherwise, though, it wouldn't really be useful, and I'm pretty sure that it would make both the math and the programming more complicated, so I'd assume (or at least hope) that that's not how it's being done.