The Republic of Izern 29 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, avant-garde cinema, and parental licensing program. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.275 billion Izern 29ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Izern 29ian economy, worth 554 trillion pounds 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. 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 impressive 129,663 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 424,525 per year while the poor average 29,745, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

Traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways, the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance, crops are flattened as farmers bludgeon insects to death, and college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Izern 29's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Izern 29 is ranked 151,416^th in the world and 18^th in Izern for Largest Populations, with 4.28 billion capita.