The Holy Empire of Itsik is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Yaya with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, state-planned economy, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.842 billion Itsikais are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yayaville. The average income tax rate is 85.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Itsikian economy, worth 511 trillion sous a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 74,774 sous, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, blind dates tend to result in bruised shins, truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills, and the relatives of suicide victims tend to be angry rather than sad. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Itsik's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yayatisme.

Itsik is ranked 265,054^th in the world and 114^th in Spiritus for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 11,141.34 Standard Monetary Units.