The Oppressed Peoples of Paths Out of Dixie is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 1.087 billion Paths Out of Dixieans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The very strong Paths Out of Dixiean economy, worth 74.6 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. Average income is 68,670 Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 227,878 per year while the poor average 15,442, a ratio of 14.8 to 1.

The team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters, national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, and Paths Out of Dixiean novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Leader. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Paths Out of Dixie's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Paths Out of Dixie is ranked 119,624^th in the world and 50^th in Philippines for Safest, scoring 73.77 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.