The Constitutional Monarchy of Islexan is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working population of 2.321 billion Islexanians 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 enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Islexanian economy, worth 269 trillion marks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Retail. Average income is an impressive 115,860 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most households' childcare costs are higher than their mortgage payments, dictionaries have tripled in size listing alternative spellings, all work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull, and if foreigners can hit a spittoon from five paces they get a free holiday to Islexan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Islexan's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Islexan is ranked 14,465^th in the world and 5^th in Solvang for Smartest Citizens, with 79.65 quips per hour.