The Federation of XD 2 is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Fyre with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 7.741 billion XD citizens hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City of Horizons. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient XD-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,374 trillion XDollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 177,572 XDollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Trust-fund babies line up for places in community college, companies have begun running campaigns to stop people from remembering their brand name, national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first, and the government is avowedly secular. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. XD 2's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Infinity.

XD 2 is ranked 5,165^th in the world and 291^st in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 538.65 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.