The Allied States of Xalon is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, daily referendums, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 16.472 billion Xalonites 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lutrazindi. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Xalonian economy, worth a remarkable 2,817 trillion shares a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 171,074 shares, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fat-shaming is now public policy, construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground, Leader spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, and a bureaucratic fight over XIA cafeteria food expenditures has caused the temporary suspension of all agency counterintelligence operations. Crime is totally unknown. Xalon's national animal is the sponge, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Xalon is ranked 205,228^th in the world and 18^th in Autropolis for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -5.1 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.