The Armed Republic of Xylourgos is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 389 million Xylourgosians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded government prioritizes Defense, although Healthcare, Industry, and Law & Order are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 40.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Xylourgosian economy, worth 14.6 trillion Copper Coins 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, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Automobile 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 37,611 Copper Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in Xylourgos, citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, and children often kick Moths for amusement. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xylourgos's national animal is the Moth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Xylourgos is ranked 110,574^th in the world and 5,436^th in Osiris for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,152.48 on the Gilded Widget Scale.