The Most Serene Republic of Iodinia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Alexandra Ericsen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.732 billion Iodinians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elaburg. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Iodinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,980 trillion ionics a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 184,557 ionics, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, and Elaburg Preparatory School for the Exceedingly Wealthy's basketball team is having a few off-years. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iodinia's national animal is the grey seal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Iodinia is ranked 1,895^th in the world and 48^th in The East Pacific for Highest Food Quality, scoring 285.31 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.