The End of Transmission Block of 0x17 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Steve Wozniak with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.489 billion 0x17ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Superorganism. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.3%.

The powerhouse 0x17ian economy, worth 840 trillion bytes 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 99,025 bytes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 360,045 per year while the poor average 19,378, a ratio of 18.6 to 1.

Couch potatoes are considered to be model citizens, cities are engulfed by smog, the military has had its funding stripped back as the nation seeks a smaller role in international politics, and Steve Wozniak is the self-declared God of all 0x17. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 0x17's national animal is the RAM, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of Emacs.

0x17 is ranked 159,798^th in the world and 115^th in Bytes for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 282.9 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.