The State of Iccos is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 19.473 billion Iccosians 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Iccosian economy, worth 79.9 trillion betales 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 4,103 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A nation-wide cull of deer is in effect, military spending is on the increase, Iccos has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Iccos in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iccos's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Iccos is ranked 152,222^nd in the world and 6^th in Massachusetts for Most Patriotic, with 11.46 flags saluted per person per day.