The People's Republic of Impale is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its smutty television, complete lack of prisons, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, democratic population of 508 million Impaleans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 81.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Impalean economy, worth 64.0 trillion Industrial Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 125,955 Industrial Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, the only movement outdoors is of ramen-delivery drones, and frat-house partying has become the national pastime. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Impale's national animal is the Iron Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Impale is ranked 225,344^th in the world and 11,776^th in Lazarus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 289.88 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.