The Grand Venue of AcixVi is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, smutty television, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.141 billion AcixVians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 86.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient AcixVian economy, worth 253 trillion cigarretes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 118,253 cigarretes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Blackacrean security services are wondering why Leader is so fond of the numbers 6, 7 and 9, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels, and politicians have literally dirty hands from their extracurricular activities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. AcixVi's national animal is the Guinea Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

AcixVi is ranked 6,713^th in the world and 1^st in Cix Iberia for Nicest Citizens, with 39.7 average smiles per day.