The People's Republic of X86 is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its closed borders, prohibition of alcohol, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 642 million X86ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 56.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient X86ian economy, worth 26.0 trillion francs a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,436 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, and music award shows include surprise polygraph segments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. X86's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

X86 is ranked 7,778^th in the world and 2^nd in Conservative Guild for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 9,392.05 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.