The Most Serene Republic of Ixono is a small, pleasant nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, democratic population of 36 million Ixonians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.3%.

The strong Ixonoan economy, worth 2.18 trillion Goodieses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 60,669 Goodieses, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.

Organ donation is compulsory, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Ixono's national animal is the Eagle, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Ixono is ranked 316,154^th in the world and 3^rd in Freedom for the People for Largest Black Market, with 5.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.