The Protectorate of Khal Papax is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Nolan Alder with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 1.693 billion Khal Papaxians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maiport. The average income tax rate is 24.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Khal Papaxian economy, worth 93.2 trillion Scrobles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,056 Scrobles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, the Maiport Film Festival recently voted 'Khal Papaxian Getting Hit By Football' as best film, and religious education is a new government priority. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Khal Papax's national animal is the Papaxian Macaques, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Khal Papax is ranked 90,504^th in the world and 1,582^nd in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,251.22 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.