The Armed Republic of Xylourgos is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 344 million Xylourgosians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, socially-minded government prioritizes Defense, with Healthcare, Industry, and Law & Order also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 39.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Xylourgosian economy, worth 13.0 trillion Copper Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 37,925 Copper Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

State dairy cow's milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets, tax revenue is often intercepted by international accountants before ever seeing the national treasury, when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming, and art criticism in Xylourgos is scathingly destructive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xylourgos's national animal is the Moth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Xylourgos is ranked 222,979^th in the world and 147^th in Karma for Most Primitive, scoring -99.5 on the Scary Big Number Scale.