The CosmopolitanState of The IGER Civilization is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the State Control Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 22.153 billion Citizens of the IGER 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Visp on Planet Earth. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient IGER economy, worth an astonishing 11,536 trillion IGER-Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is a breathtaking 520,768 IGER-Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol, there's never a spare chair in the retirement home, and colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The IGER Civilization's national animal is the Sphinx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is scienctific atheism.

The IGER Civilization is ranked 130^th in the world and 1^st in SICON for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 42,650.46 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.