The Social Democratic Federation of Indo States is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Alice Desnilla with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 13.752 billion Fatimanians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fatima City. The average income tax rate is 8.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fatimanian economy, worth a remarkable 3,342 trillion Eastern Siberian Estanas 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an amazing 243,064 Eastern Siberian Estanas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The aphorism "there's no need to argue" has been dismissed by Fatimanians, the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried Phoenix Dung" has been declared a national treasure, tax revenue is often intercepted by international accountants before ever seeing the national treasury, and liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Indo States's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Roman Catholic and Fatimanic Orthodoxy.

Indo States is ranked 6,724^th in the world and 3^rd in Hartfelden for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,995.54 pounds of wildlife per square mile.