The Empire of Xiantia is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Yanane 1st with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, prohibition of alcohol, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 13.557 billion Xiantians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lineox. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Xiantian economy, worth 783 trillion credits a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 57,768 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content, religion makes people horny, more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself, and athletes are renowned for being the best at maths. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xiantia's national animal is the dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Ten Divins.

Xiantia is ranked 290,895^th in the world and 2^nd in Xiantia Dominion for Fattest Citizens, with 5.54 Obesity Rate.