The Great Fleet of Xeng He is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Xeng He with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, enslaved workforce, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 29.51 billion Riders 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 tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Industry also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.7%.

The frighteningly efficient a Rider economy, worth a remarkable 5,892 trillion oath debts 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. 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 impressive 199,693 oath debts, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,111,436 per year while the poor average 17,949, a ratio of 61.9 to 1.

The military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks", hospitals have poor data security but send lots of bodies to be encrypted, signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars, and the government says that Possession is nine-tenths of the Lore. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Xeng He's national animal is the origen man, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Xagwan animism.

Xeng He is ranked 311,409^th in the world and 13,070^th in Balder for Smartest Citizens, with 0.58 quips per hour.