The Republic of Icelets is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 943 million Iceletsians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 64.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Iceletsian economy, worth 30.8 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,665 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government expenses are beyond compare, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Iceletsians, on-duty Air Icelets flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class, and giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Icelets's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Icelets is ranked 99,400^th in the world and 206^th in Refugia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 85.97 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.