The Matriarchy of Ishmailand is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its national health service, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.944 billion Ishmailanders 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 medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mews Yolk City. The average income tax rate is 44.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Ishmailandian economy, worth 78.4 trillion mails a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,316 mails, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, third world countries are rich in "I Love Mews Yolk City" t-shirts, ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack, and the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies. Crime is totally unknown. Ishmailand's national animal is the seagull, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ishmailand is ranked 185,825^th in the world and 1,098^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Developed, scoring 53.16 on the Human Development Index.