The Community of Ex-Worm is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and national health service. The hard-nosed, devout population of 7.339 billion Ex-Wormians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Administration, Industry, and Law & Order are also considered important, while International Aid is ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ex-Wormian economy, worth 835 trillion Ex-golds 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, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. 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 113,785 Ex-golds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 437,486 per year while the poor average 20,379, a ratio of 21.5 to 1.

Radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", witches' brews set off Geiger counters, and the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ex-Worm's national animal is the Ex-Egg, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ex-Worm is ranked 27,300^th in the world and 1,751^st in Balder for Most Corrupt Governments, with 78.62 kickbacks per hour.