The Loving Couple of -I-Ship It is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Nunnally with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.337 billion -I-Ship Itians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Britannia. The average income tax rate is 71.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient -I-Ship Itian economy, worth a remarkable 1,845 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 162,757 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The number of eyes rolled per maths lesson is increasing exponentially, main battle tanks stalk the woods of -I-Ship It in search of doves, quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, and machine gun nests are the latest must-have gardening trend. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -I-Ship It's national animal is the dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

-I-Ship It is ranked 24,312^th in the world and 72^nd in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 83 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.