The Protectorate of Xanderstan is a huge, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 415 million Xanderstanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stuborough. The average income tax rate is 56.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Xanderstanian economy, worth 13.9 trillion X-Buxes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,480 X-Buxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", the WhoTube comments section has gone strangely quiet, foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade Xanderstanian Moonshine", and the economy's basis is "from each according to his abilities and to each according to their accountants". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xanderstan's national animal is the Lowland Cow, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Xanderstan is ranked 276,718^th in the world and 3,141^st in the West Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 14,664.56 Standard Monetary Units.