The Autocratic State of Vexilia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Teethy Phoenix with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.12 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, 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 94.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Vexilian economy, worth a remarkable 1,375 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 268,740 Pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, kitchen patrol is dominated by ten-year-old runts, political activists are routinely executed, and motorcycle riders are required to wear so much gear they've been nicknamed "Stay Pufts". 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 frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Vexilia is ranked 13,413^th in the world and 704^th in The North Pacific for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 99.2 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.