The Illuminated Autocracy of Max Empire is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Max the wearer-of-many-crowns with an iron fist, and notable for its digital currency, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 21.161 billion Maxians 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.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Industry, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maxopolis. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Maxian economy, worth an astonishing 12,264 trillion Maxian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is a breathtaking 579,597 Maxian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Home renovation shows are increasingly popular, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, and government fact-checkers use surprising amounts of high explosive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Max Empire's national animal is the Maxian bird, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Maxism.

Max Empire is ranked 78,580^th in the world and 1^st in Phoenix Coalition for Most Extreme, scoring 22.25 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.