The Republic of Izern 326 is a mid-sized, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 62 million Izern 326ians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 34.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Izern 326ian economy, worth 2.15 trillion izerns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 34,736 izerns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied izern, baby dolls thrown in the trash are a leading cause of panic attacks, there's nothing more Izern 326ian than revanchism, and school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Izern 326's national animal is the izern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Izern 326 is ranked 147,384^th in the world and 782^nd in Izern for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 399.68 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.