The Empire of Iouea is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Jean Cooper with a fair hand, and remarkable for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 12.417 billion Ioueans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cavern City. The average income tax rate is 11.3%.

The strong Iouean economy, worth 714 trillion florins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,569 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

An iron curtain has descended around the nation, travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Iouea flights to avoid the pay lavatories, you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, and women don't report crimes to the emergency services for fear of being arrested. Crime is totally unknown. Iouea's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Mathology.

Iouea is ranked 284,495^th in the world and 2^nd in The Enchanted Realms for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 549.8 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.