The State of the Levant and of Elixandropolis is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Empress Adriana II Habsburg-Bourbon with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.858 billion Elixandropolitanos are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elixandropolis and Blancblue L'Belle. The average income tax rate is 81.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Elixandropolitano economy, worth 556 trillion Oros a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 56,449 Oros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, the nation's biggest export is stupidity, citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, and the nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Eckie-Ecola and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elixandropolis's national animal is the Gato, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Non official Greek mithology majority.

Elixandropolis is ranked 86,461^st in the world and 995^th in the Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,917.23 on the Gilded Widget Scale.