The Holy Rpublic of of Ischaemia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Lader with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, rampant corporate plagiarism, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 32.303 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, with Healthcare, Social Policy, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. The average income tax rate is 9.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ischaemian economy, worth a remarkable 5,024 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 4,840^th in the world and 189^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 15,327.79 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.