The Dictatorship of CSX-16 is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.56 billion CSX-16ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Administration and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Environment receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.4%.

The CSX-16ian economy, worth 65.7 trillion soms a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 42,096 soms, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 239,170 per year while the poor average 3,612, a ratio of 66.2 to 1.

The nation's historic treasures have been sold off to Maxtopia's "Museum of CSX-16ian Artifacts That They're Too Stupid to Appreciate", the secret ingredient is love (and MSG), for the sake of 'public interest' news programs tell viewers how to home-make Sarin gas bombs, and a burger chain recently changed its name to Mack Donaldz for legal reasons. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. CSX-16's national animal is the ibis.

CSX-16 is ranked 90,264^th in the world and 4,673^rd in Lazarus for Largest Black Market, with 3.16 trillion Standard Monetary Units.