The Incorporated States of The Last Issue is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Barry White with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, pith helmet sales, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 42.763 billion Last Issueans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Last Issuean economy, worth a remarkable 8,020 trillion Barries a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 187,557 Barries, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 668,610 per year while the poor average 37,843, a ratio of 17.7 to 1.

The central government is trying to keep things flowing, the past is set in stone, the government spends countless taxpayer Barries on preserving soundbites of toddlers banging on pots and pans, and people who are too good at riffle shuffling get disappeared by the secret police. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Last Issue's national animal is the White, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is T S O P.

The Last Issue is ranked 319,376^th in the world and 9^th in Wyndia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.53 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.