The Listen of Experience is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Jimi Hendrix with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.851 billion Voodoo Children enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Social Policy, and Industry are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Electric Ladyland. The average income tax rate is 31.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Experienced economy, worth a remarkable 1,443 trillion joints a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 97,202 joints, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

In a desperate bid for cheap airfare Voodoo Children can be seen jogging in a rubber suit just before flying, kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, and government winter plans get a frosty reception. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Experience's national animal is the riff, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Power of Soul.

Experience is ranked 7,440^th in the world and 11^th in Hippy Haven for Nicest Citizens, with 36.23 average smiles per day.