The Unified Democratic States of Inven is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Franz Liszt with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, hatred of cheese, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.119 billion Invenians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Creativ. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Invenian economy, worth a remarkable 2,639 trillion IUDS a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 237,370 IUDS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Invenian grocery store, life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old", gossip magazines have pictures of Franz Liszt sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, and welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Inven's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Inven is ranked 8,896^th in the world and 206^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 10,074.14 on the Gilded Widget Scale.