The Listen of Experience is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jimi Hendrix with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 15.37 billion Voodoo Children enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Social Policy, and Industry are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Electric Ladyland. The average income tax rate is 35.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Experienced economy, worth a remarkable 1,534 trillion joints 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 dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is 99,842 joints, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The people sing of those who will not be slaves again, orange trees find it's not easy being green, two inland cities have unveiled their new desalination plants, and the government is proudly free of crabs. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Experience's national animal is the riff, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Power of Soul.

Experience is ranked 282,952^nd in the world and 33^rd in Hippy Haven for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 24.9 on the Bus Surprisal Index.