The Emirate of Averxia is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.117 billion Averxians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Welfare and Social Policy not funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.5%.

The thriving Averxian economy, worth 121 trillion Averxian Credits a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 108,339 Averxian Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 982,062 per year while the poor average 1,401, a ratio of 700 to 1.

Violetist maidens who fall for an outsider must leave their violet light districts in shame, cities are engulfed by smog, radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass, and Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Averxia's national animal is the Averxian Sand Worm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Averxia is ranked 57,238^th in the world and 211^th in the Plains of Perdition for Highest Average Incomes, with 108,339.17 Standard Monetary Units.