The Union of Exania is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Custodian Honnecker with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.238 billion Exanians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Exanon. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Exanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,583 trillion Vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 171,431 Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach, some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Exanians, and government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals. Crime is totally unknown. Exania's national animal is the Zoroark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

Exania is ranked 15,920^th in the world and 134^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,004.4 on the Gilded Widget Scale.