The Commonwealth of Waex is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 472 million Waexians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 12.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Waexian economy, worth 27.3 trillion Woxes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,911 Woxes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Being wrong on the internet has been classified as digital terrorism, Waex has designated Waex City as its capital city, foreign investment has dropped to a trickle after laws were passed preventing investors from taking their earnings abroad, and prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Waex's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Waex is ranked 149,530^th in the world and 5,790^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 15.62 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.