The Incorporated States of Taun LIX is a massive, pleasant nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 2.308 billion Taun LIXians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 46.4%.

The Taun LIXian economy, worth 121 trillion taus 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 black market in Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. 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 52,244 taus, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Official medical guidelines insist that childbirth is 'almost totally painless', mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, foreign lack of enthusiasm for Taun LIXian nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli, and EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taun LIX's national animal is the crow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Taun LIX is ranked 256,078^th in the world and 9^th in The Remnants for Least Corrupt Governments, with 90.2 percentage of bribes refused.