The United Socialist States of Maxicia is a tiny, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 7 million Maxicians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Maxician economy, worth 133 billion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is 19,140 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The national security service are a bunch of crooks, the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Maxicia, the government funds large training centres to turn wolves into functioning members of society, and photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in Leader's bedroom. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maxicia's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Maxicia is ranked 322,223^rd in the world and 627^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 5,263.54 Standard Monetary Units.