The State of XA is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and notable for its irreverence towards religion, complete lack of public education, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 17.057 billion XAians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.1%.

The thriving XAian economy, worth 615 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 36,102 betales, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary, XA has designated Westminster as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of XA in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. XA's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

XA is ranked 234,986^th in the world and 152^nd in Omega Prime for Safest, scoring 20.77 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.