The Dictatorship of Phoenix republix is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 749 million Phoenix republixians 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, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NIXIA. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Phoenix republixian economy, worth 48.9 trillion Nixes a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,294 Nixes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All the playground's a stage for Phoenix republixian schoolchildren, bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, Phoenix republixians are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks, and NIXIA's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Phoenix republix's national animal is the Phoenix.

Phoenix republix is ranked 241,404^th in the world and 5,563^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -5.4 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.