The Fraternal Federation of Ilisseia is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Pietro Victor Henry Aiden with an even hand, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 6.99 billion Ilisseians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illondcamwigburg. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ilisseian economy, worth 849 trillion Ili Rubles a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 121,578 Ili Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are expected to carve their own toys, politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, ratings for schools' curricula range from 'Pure as the Driven Snow' to 'Late Night TV', and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ilisseia's national animal is the Sun Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ilisseia is ranked 3,442^nd in the world and 196^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 95.58 on the Human Development Index.