The Holy Empire of Common9 is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Manuel López with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 11.086 billion Common9ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Industry, with Law & Order, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ciudad de Mexico. The average income tax rate is 37.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Common9ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,259 trillion baht a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,653 baht, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Those who sing the national anthem off-key have the key thrown away, a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true, structures are raised on promises, and artists can sign away their music on luxury paper with freshly-squeezed squid ink. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Common9's national animal is the dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Aztec.

Common9 is ranked 90,247^th in the world and 15^th in Common Storage for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,060.01 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.