The People's Republic of Ioanasburg is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 436 million Ioanians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 58.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ioanasburgian economy, worth 22.7 trillion Naylors a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 52,078 Naylors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines', most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content, and Ioanasburg recently decided against having a capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ioanasburg's national animal is the Domi.

Ioanasburg is ranked 267,358^th in the world and 2^nd in Sanctuary Union for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -9.22 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.