The People's Dome of Xenial is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Bimby with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, flagrant waste-dumping, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.428 billion Xenialians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qualona. The average income tax rate is 10.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Xenialian economy, worth 705 trillion Furtons a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 130,030 Furtons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Requests to "pass the salt" are supported by tank divisions, auditors are gutting every governmental department, the government's economic policy is "sort it yourself", and only the richest get to see out of their windows. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Xenial's national animal is the Trout Bot, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is No Religion.

Xenial is ranked 20,892^nd in the world and 459^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 51.01 flags saluted per person per day.