The Idyllic Utopian Empire of The Union of Ibistic States is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Philip Walters IV with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.545 billion Ibisians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ibiston City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ibisian economy, worth 684 trillion Ibisims a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 268,999 Ibisims, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies, you can get married in sickness and in health but not internationally, frat-house partying has become the national pastime, and family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Union of Ibistic States's national animal is the Ibis, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

The Union of Ibistic States is ranked 5,261^st in the world and 12^th in The League for Largest Governments, scoring 42.66 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.