The of 9006 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by with an iron fist, and remarkable for its lack of airports, feral children, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 14.256 billion Maxians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of . The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient 9006ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,023 trillion Rums a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 141,951 Rums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The steaks are too high for ambassadors to butcher foreign relationships, corporations feel proud all year round, the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air, and political activists are routinely executed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 9006's national animal is the Rum, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is .

9006 is ranked 222,997^th in the world and 542^nd in The Wellspring for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 24.3 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.