The Kingdom of Xerxias is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by King Cyrillus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, frequent executions, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 833 million Xerxians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aslaris. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Xerxian economy, worth 97.1 trillion shillings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 116,576 shillings, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,056,150 per year while the poor average 1,516, a ratio of 696 to 1.

Bins outnumber trees in city parks, wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry, the nation's cuisine is the laughing stock of Aspen, and corporate executives continue to enjoy generous tax benefits while the public is taxed to the hilt. Crime is a serious problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Xerxias's national animal is the direwolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Xerxias is ranked 312,027^th in the world and 150^th in Aspen for Lowest Crime Rates, with 40.48 law-abiding acts per hour.