The Lucky Blue Artworks of Apexiala Gallery of Art is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Santa Claus with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, zero percent divorce rate, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.824 billion Apexiala Gallery of Artians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Apexiala Gallery of Artian economy, worth a remarkable 1,056 trillion Candy Canes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 181,327 Candy Canes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,629,569 per year while the poor average 2,538, a ratio of 641 to 1.

University graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation, the morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses, and people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Apexiala Gallery of Art's national animal is the Rudolf Reindeer Elf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Apexiala Gallery of Art is ranked 333,624^th in the world and 437^th in The Apexialan Commonwealth for Most Pacifist, with 3.82 cheeks turned per day.