The Dominion of Xanistan is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 328 million Xanistani live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xantantinople. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Xanistani economy, worth 32.4 trillion querots a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Average income is 98,923 querots, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 438,278 per year while the poor average 13,944, a ratio of 31.4 to 1.

There is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, teddy bear James Dean (aka "the Rebel Without the Claws") helps convince kids that candy cigarettes are cool, intelligence agencies frequently invite passers-by into their secret vaults for tea and biscuits, and old folks yearn for the days when young people saw bloodthirsty death matches with their own eyes instead of through a screen. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Xanistan's national animal is the Kalkara, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Xanistan is ranked 266,113^th in the world and 5,508^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 43.79 law-abiding acts per hour.