The Federal Republic of Issime is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Montserrat Leeon-Yurena with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and national health service. The compassionate, cheerful population of 12.442 billion Issimeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marsante. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Issimean economy, worth a remarkable 2,739 trillion Marins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 220,216 Marins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists are pillars of society, refugees from other nations are flocking to Issime's border, the news is showing footage of Montserrat Leeon-Yurena bullying an old man to the point of tears, and Montserrat Leeon-Yurena's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Issime's national animal is the Issi Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Issime is ranked 328,328^th in the world and 3,184^th in the Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -15.7 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.