The Free Land of Imagey Nation is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 32.475 billion Imageys are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nation Center. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The powerhouse Imagey Nationian economy, worth a remarkable 4,857 trillion pens a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 149,565 pens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Code enforcement officers circle wealthy Imageys like vultures, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, and the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Imagey Nation's national animal is the serpent, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Imagey Nation is ranked 33,636^th in the world and 1^st in A Socialist Paradise for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 202.97 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.