The Empire of The Nex is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Joshua Graham with an even hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, otherworldly petting zoo, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, devout population of 4.66 billion Nexians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The NEXUS. The average income tax rate is 80.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nexian economy, worth a remarkable 1,028 trillion Nexian dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 220,812 Nexian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes, glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, and most people attending churches are maintenance workers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Nex's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Mormon Church of Joshua Graham.

The Nex is ranked 22,595^th in the world and 68^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 4,937.26 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.