The Woodhouse Sanctum of IO-1 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its public floggings, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 28.47 billion IO-1ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 51.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong IO-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,384 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,640 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

All beauty contests have been banned, some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them, pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security, and historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. IO-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

IO-1 is ranked 227,526^th in the world and 1^st in Indian Ocean for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -2.05 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.