The Republic of Izern 259 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 722 million Izern 259ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 53.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Izern 259ian economy, worth 33.0 trillion izerns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,687 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies, tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers, lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", and people's charity begins and ends at home. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Izern 259's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Izern 259 is ranked 315,294^th in the world and 833^rd in Izern for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.72 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.