The Republic of Izern 99 is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its smutty television, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 2.433 billion Izern 99ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Izern 99ian economy, worth 270 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 111,343 kronor, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 490,057 per year while the poor average 15,879, a ratio of 30.9 to 1.

There's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality, the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Izern 99's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Izern 99 is ranked 67,886^th in the world and 373^rd in Izern for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 15,884.41 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.