The Raymond P Shafer Highway of I 79 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Eisenhower with an iron fist, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, zero percent divorce rate, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.063 billion Highwaymen 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Erie. The average income tax rate is 60.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Roadworthy economy, worth a remarkable 1,209 trillion tolls a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 109,372 tolls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prodigal children celebrate as charitable bequests plummet, only adults may purchase violent video games, patriots insist that size does matter, and posing for pictures is an integral part of military training. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. I 79's national animal is the Sky Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Constructionist.

I 79 is ranked 96,278^th in the world and 4,941^st in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.33 law-abiding acts per hour.