The Children are crying because of La Xinga is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by big cheeks with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 6.638 billion cheek are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of hell. The average income tax rate is 85.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient cheek economy, worth 802 trillion hugs a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 120,847 hugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Protests are prohibited from blocking traffic, popular sunny beaches always have a cloudy outlook, loudmouthed journalists are given the chop, and economists speak of trusting in the Tao of Free Market Capitalism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. La Xinga's national animal is the cheek, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is who has that.

La Xinga is ranked 58,919^th in the world and 1,316^th in The East Pacific for Safest, scoring 99.73 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.