The Cruel Irony of Taxandrie is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by no one with an even hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, public floggings, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 36.102 billion Taxandrieans enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Taxandrie. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Taxandriean economy, worth a remarkable 6,181 trillion taxes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 171,234 taxes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,583,723 per year while the poor average 1,798, a ratio of 880 to 1.

It's a common sight to see angry commuters with grenade launchers mounted on their vehicles, elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, and young people crowd pizza parlors praying to 'The Supreme Pizza, His Immaculate Munchiness'. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Taxandrie's national animal is the andrie, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Death Metal.

Taxandrie is ranked 294,003^rd in the world and 171^st in Anarchy for Lowest Crime Rates, with 2.63 law-abiding acts per hour.