The Community of Ialsi is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its national health service, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 563 million Ilyanesea 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Citadel 00. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ilyanesian economy, worth 59.3 trillion Dhiras a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 105,386 Dhiras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government offers gay men mildly offensive tips on how to pass as straight, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, a child's only Trickster Night scare is the sight of their parents dancing, and a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation. Crime is totally unknown. Ialsi's national animal is the Monitor lizard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ialsi is ranked 8,380^th in the world and 19^th in Thaecia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 56.53 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.