The Most Serene Republic of Iathenia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 13.631 billion Iathenians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Iathenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,480 trillion twigs a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,586 twigs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions, there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves, and undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iathenia's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Iathenia is ranked 21,883^rd in the world and 1^st in Serene Nations Group for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 8,323.93 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.