The Champlain Parkway of I 89 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Eisenhower with an even hand, and notable for its fear of technology, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 11.172 billion Highwaymen are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South Burlington. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Roadworthy economy, worth a remarkable 1,062 trillion tolls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 95,064 tolls, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked', a shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's, only the wealthy vote, and citizens select which government department gets their income tax tolls each year. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. I 89's national animal is the Brumby, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Constructionist.

I 89 is ranked 31,602^nd in the world and 1,943^rd in Balder for Most Corrupt Governments, with 68.67 kickbacks per hour.