The Powered States of Ceonyx is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ronnald Pella with an even hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, lack of airports, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.036 billion Ceonyxians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Gracia. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ceonyxian economy, worth 484 trillion bolts of lightning 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 Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Gambling. Average income is 60,338 bolts of lightning, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop), exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles, people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, and the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ceonyx's national animal is the electric eel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Electrical Rich.

Ceonyx is ranked 318,685^th in the world and 107^th in Hellworld 2 for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -115.62 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.