The United Socialist States of of Ipotehm is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The People's Supreme Council with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.294 billion War Machines are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Citadel. The average income tax rate is 91.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ipotehmian economy, worth 937 trillion IpoRubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 218,380 IpoRubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair, more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself, money grows on trees, and telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ipotehm's national animal is the Fascist Snake and Capitalist Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is secular.

Ipotehm is ranked 5,591^st in the world and 131^st in the Rejected Realms for Largest Governments, scoring 41.93 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.