The Archduchy of Aexalla is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, digital currency, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 17.644 billion Aexallans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sanguis. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aexallish economy, worth a remarkable 1,850 trillion Drokmyns a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Gambling industry. Average income is an impressive 104,904 Drokmyns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

It's never "just a game" with Aexallish sports fans, future leaders of Aexalla regularly dismiss pressing political issues when available options don't conform to their worldview, pre-schoolers who draw stick figures of their favorite celebrities are sued for infringing image rights, and hedge fund managers are diversifying into herbaceous borders. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aexalla's national animal is the Kodiak Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aexalla is ranked 2,127^th in the world and 1^st in Arctic for Largest Black Market, with 1,310 trillion Standard Monetary Units.