The Incorporated States of Kinixys is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 493 million Kinixysians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlandier. The average income tax rate is 76.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Kinixysian economy, worth 24.1 trillion Chelones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 48,919 Chelones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends, satellite images show safe electoral constituencies in complete darkness, and employers are keenest on employees who lack family values. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kinixys's national animal is the Tortoise, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kinixys is ranked 26,523^rd in the world and 18^th in Texas for Safest, scoring 110.66 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.