The Republic of Ixavia is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its teetotalling pirates, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 7.933 billion Ixavians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ixos. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ixavian economy, worth a remarkable 1,195 trillion Shillings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 150,719 Shillings, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 639,523 per year while the poor average 22,912, a ratio of 27.9 to 1.

Children are expected to carve their own toys, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, preschoolers outnumber veteran politicians in government, and hot dogs have been renamed lukewarm pigs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ixavia's national animal is the Moose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ixavia is ranked 9,281^st in the world and 4^th in The Confederation of Free States for Most Cultured, scoring 118 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.