The Autocratic State of Vexilia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Teethy Phoenix with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.322 billion Vexilians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phoenix. The average income tax rate is 90.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Vexilian economy, worth 770 trillion Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 232,015 Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Executions are marked by quiet dignity and maybe a final round or two of whist, mysterious black helicopters menace farmers to ensure compliance with straitjacketing agricultural policies, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, and environmentalists have found an unusual ally in soldiers of fortune. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vexilia's national animal is the Orca, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Vexilia is ranked 2,052^nd in the world and 101^st in The North Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 160,063.61 Standard Monetary Units.