The Holy Rpublic of of Ischaemia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Lader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 32.31 billion Ischamians 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 relatively small government is effectively ruled by the Department of Education, although Healthcare, Social Policy, and Environment are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 9.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ischaemian economy, worth a remarkable 5,025 trillion pzsoes a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,553 pzsoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jury duty means front row seats to a spectacular show, there'll be no comeback tour for many former boy bands, the law says it's okay to sell a bomb to a terrorist so long as they promise not to detonate it, and alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance. Crime is totally unknown. Ischaemia's national animal is the dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ischaemia is ranked 290,613^th in the world and 6,335^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -32.34 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.