The Merciful of Xichung is a gargantuan, pleasant nation, ruled by Hela with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 14.64 billion Mercenaries 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 government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Administration, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Environment and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlas. The average income tax rate is 29.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Merc economy, worth 874 trillion Krills a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,707 Krills, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, CEOs and corporate executives are frequently found striking for better stock options, an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, and government officials across Xichung are being "encouraged" to adopt Onis to set an example for the populace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xichung's national animal is the Oni, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Aegis.

Xichung is ranked 155,028^th in the world and 135^th in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Lowest Crime Rates, with 60.6 law-abiding acts per hour.