The Federation of Iisvesi Lake is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its ritual sacrifices, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.148 billion Iisvesi Lakeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 52.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Iisvesi Lakean economy, worth 91.2 trillion gambles 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 79,457 gambles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Throwing a sickie is a serious crime, internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Iisvesi Lakean weed picker are way up, sex changes are routinely performed at Iisvesi Lake's hospitals, and they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iisvesi Lake's national animal is the gamble, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Iisvesi Lake is ranked 83,743^rd in the world and 174^th in Lakes in Finland for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 2,219.95 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.