The Archduchy of Aexalla is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 29.61 billion Aexallans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Environment, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sanguis. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aexallish economy, worth a remarkable 3,744 trillion Drokmyns a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 126,458 Drokmyns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment, no one is quite sure what many government officials look like, citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, and the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aexalla's national animal is the Kodiak Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aexalla is ranked 290,966^th in the world and 32^nd in Arctic for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -7.21 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.