The Republic of Sihx is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 8.825 billion Sihxians 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 juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Sihxian economy, worth a remarkable 1,127 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 127,818 dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 705,531 per year while the poor average 11,700, a ratio of 60.3 to 1.

People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, interest in globalism never flags, the government expresses surprisingly intense opinions on the use of whip pans, and the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Sihx's national animal is the crocodile, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is involuntary euthanasia.

Sihx is ranked 118,699^th in the world and 111^th in LunarPunk for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,028.53 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.