The Kingdom of Apexiala Cards 23 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.514 billion Apexialans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.8%.

The all-consuming Apexiala Cards 23ian economy, worth 556 trillion Apexialas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 123,348 Apexialas, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 653,885 per year while the poor average 12,314, a ratio of 53.1 to 1.

Chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels, late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards, the election for Leader's office's janitor is heating up, and the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Apexiala Cards 23's national animal is the Mythic, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Apexiala Cards 23 is ranked 269,512^th in the world and 413^th in The Apexialan Commonwealth for Most Primitive, scoring -236.94 on the Scary Big Number Scale.