The United City-States of Ax Pekewek Pilam is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Saxpām Wāts with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, strictly enforced bedtime, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.877 billion Oxaux Pilam 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tawaxājo Ut'an. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Pilam economy, worth 186 trillion Pasinope'ts 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming and Basket Weaving. 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 99,565 Pasinope'ts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The holiest shrine in Aptsāi-tpā is on another world, cars are banned, the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, and no one is worried about government policies any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Ax Pekewek Pilam's national animal is the white-tailed deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Aptsāi-tpā.

Ax Pekewek Pilam is ranked 53,807^th in the world and 60^th in Community for Lowest Crime Rates, with 73.25 law-abiding acts per hour.