The Embryonic Hyperparasitoid of Xshor is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by ETERNAL with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, vat-grown people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 5.722 billion Xshorians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NEST-PRIMARY. The average income tax rate is 98.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Xshorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,424 trillion nutrients 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 248,989 nutrients, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools, the justice of Xshor is considered superior to that of other nations, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, and emergency responders spend more time in the air than giving air. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xshor's national animal is the maggot, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is TRANSFIGURATION.

Xshor is ranked 327,714^th in the world and 1^st in the maggot pit for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 2,738.89 Standard Monetary Units.