The People's Republic of Xura is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 213 million Xurans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Xuran economy, worth 12.0 trillion xuras 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 black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 56,571 xuras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Returning tourists and businessmen are detained without trial if they belong to the "wrong" religion, religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds, prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up, and children dream of becoming physicians and physicists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xura's national animal is the xuran black bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Xura is ranked 86,436^th in the world and 883^rd in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,411.21 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.