The Republic of Xenum Caniam is a large, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 91 million Xenum Caniamians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 50.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Xenum Caniamian economy, worth 2.44 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Pizza Delivery, Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 26,800 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather, a five-year-old and a convicted terrorist can sit alongside one another in jury service, Leader is strangely popular with male politicians' wives, and the default state for Xenum Caniam is default. Crime is totally unknown. Xenum Caniam's national animal is the hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Xenum Caniam is ranked 75,825^th in the world and 255^th in Carcassonne for Safest, scoring 92 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.