The Republic of Izaiya is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The President with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 4.919 billion Visaiyans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gaio. The average income tax rate is 71.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Visaiyan economy, worth 592 trillion Phahts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 120,506 Phahts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, the official Visaiyan Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany The President to meetings with foreign heads of state. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Izaiya's national animal is the White Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Religious Tolerance.

Izaiya is ranked 27,154^th in the world and 287^th in 10000 Islands for Safest, scoring 110.5 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.