The State of Ivana Paloma is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The cynical population of 36.647 billion Ivana Palomen are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 53.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Ivana Paloman economy, worth 619 trillion betales a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 16,896 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ivana Paloma has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Ivana Paloma in an international press conference, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, and there's no such thing as a safe bet. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ivana Paloma's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ivana Paloma is ranked 241,101^st in the world and 646^th in Ancient Lands for Highest Food Quality, scoring 8.3 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.