The Confederate States of Dixie is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Nathan Bedford Featherston with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, devout population of 29.473 billion Confederates 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Richmond. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Confederate economy, worth a remarkable 4,716 trillion Confederate States dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 160,032 Confederate States dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

Signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés, the Confederate football team for the Maxxmas ceasefire consists only of Intelligence Corps personnel, stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, and academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dixie's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Dixie is ranked 289,697^th in the world and 37^th in Dixie for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -9.03 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.