The Protectorate of Khal Papax is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Nolan Alder with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 1.688 billion Khal Papaxians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maiport. The average income tax rate is 24.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Khal Papaxian economy, worth 92.8 trillion Scrobles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,969 Scrobles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Sex-ed is child's play, the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network, adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, and the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Khal Papax's national animal is the Papaxian Macaques, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Khal Papax is ranked 91,717^th in the world and 1,862^nd in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,236.97 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.