The Republic of City of Izberbash is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, soft-spoken computers, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 755 million City of Izberbashians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.2%.

The powerhouse City of Izberbashian economy, worth 67.2 trillion Ducats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 88,943 Ducats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 288,849 per year while the poor average 20,650, a ratio of 14.0 to 1.

Agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, schoolchildren are divided over Leader's "Why Tigers are Cooler than Lions" speech, large sections of City of Izberbash have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, and City of Izberbash has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. City of Izberbash's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

City of Izberbash is ranked 257,794^th in the world and 770^th in Novaya Zemlya for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4.38 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.