The Corporate States of Aeioux is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by GOV-AI Xerathul with an even hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 19.245 billion Aeiouxians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illion. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aeiouxian economy, worth a remarkable 2,581 trillion Dust Particles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 134,135 Dust Particles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever, businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, teenagers sit around on their butts all day, and the latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aeioux's national animal is the Grey Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Aeioux is ranked 5,645^th in the world and 25^th in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 533.25 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.