The Protectorate of Ishmiel is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its flagrant waste-dumping, strictly enforced bedtime, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, hard-working, cheerful, devout population of 45.573 billion Ishmielians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ishmiel City. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Ishmielian economy, worth an astonishing 13,518 trillion waines a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 296,632 waines, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Ishmiel City Natural History Museum, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, most barbers are also surgeons, and politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive. Ishmiel's national animal is the whale, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is a major religion.

Ishmiel is ranked 300,137^th in the world and 144^th in Canada for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -12.07 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.