The Grand Duchy of Saxmere is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Grand Duke James with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, keen interest in outer space, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 31.22 billion Saxmereans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Umbra. The average income tax rate is 69.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Saxmerean economy, worth a remarkable 1,971 trillion Atlantic Ducats a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,152 Atlantic Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities, fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, and fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saxmere's national animal is the feathered penguine, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Saxmere is ranked 112,220^th in the world and 9^th in Western Atlantic for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,560.96 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.