The High Athelingric of Itarax is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Asher Wiley with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.413 billion Itaraxians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Itaraxian economy, worth a remarkable 1,314 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 156,267 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 441,731 per year while the poor average 44,228, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment Asher Wiley's hair, cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon, domestic fishermen fly the Itaraxian flag out of fear of being blown up, and the most sacred right is the right to ignore the rights of slaves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Itarax's national animal is the snow leopard and its national religion is Adoptionism.

Itarax is ranked 15,427^th in the world and 10^th in Cainitium for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 25,112 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.