The Senator Ice Princess of Xoriet is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Kath Zandion Beralis with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 16.056 billion Xoriens are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Androssi. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Xorien economy, worth a remarkable 4,246 trillion Saruns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 264,494 Saruns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, and taxpayers receive expenditure reports from the Grand High Poobah of the Order of Violet. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xoriet's national animal is the Golden Ocelot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Fate's Mandate.

Xoriet is ranked 49,433^rd in the world and 2,393^rd in the Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,452.99 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.