The Republic of West Axeton is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Weston Axel with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.163 billion West Axies are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Healthcare, and Industry are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vargore. The average income tax rate is 80.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient a West Axy economy, worth a remarkable 1,517 trillion Vexons a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 149,303 Vexons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response, glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide, naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure, and the number of children one can have is restricted by law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. West Axeton's national animal is the Emu, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Great and Powerful GROB.

West Axeton is ranked 286,766^th in the world and 6^th in The Slave Guilds for Highest Food Quality, scoring 4.38 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.