The Protectorate of Xydron is a mid-sized, safe nation, notable for its public floggings, enforced nudity, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 50 million Xyrhöni 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 74.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Xydronik economy, worth 2.09 trillion Xydronik Shillings 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 Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 41,772 Xydronik Shillings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government pours millions of Xydronik Shillings into rehabilitation programs annually, explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, and museums offer moralization or your money back. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xydron's national animal is the Feathered Narwhal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Xydron is ranked 250,886^th in the world and 85^th in Aeternas for Highest Average Incomes, with 41,772.73 Standard Monetary Units.