The Dictatorship of Maxess is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.286 billion Maxessians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Maxessian economy, worth 202 trillion obsidians a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 157,364 obsidians, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,428,883 per year while the poor average 2,003, a ratio of 713 to 1.

Autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum, drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars, serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed, and passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Maxess's national animal is the gryphon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Maxess is ranked 139,637^th in the world and 9^th in The Slumber for Safest, scoring 66.79 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.