The Free Land of Ichiban Holdings is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 305 million Ichibas love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ijincho. The average income tax rate is 49.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Icchan economy, worth 30.8 trillion senbeis a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,992 senbeis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, the government has legalised small-scale capitalism, and cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ichiban Holdings's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ichiban Holdings is ranked 62,543^rd in the world and 2^nd in Redacted for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,116.88 on the Gilded Widget Scale.