The Empire of Xanathium is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, avowedly heterosexual populace, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.221 billion Xanathiumians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare are ignored. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Xanathiumian economy, worth a remarkable 1,285 trillion Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 114,533 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Xanathiumian grocery store, and the "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Xanathiumian Navy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xanathium's national animal is the Snow Leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Xanathium is ranked 32,523^rd in the world and 38^th in Institute of Cellulose for Most Corrupt Governments, with 66.77 kickbacks per hour.