The Gull Flag Republic of Iansisle is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Nicodemo Ranalte with an even hand, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cheerful population of 47.309 billion Iansisleans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ianapalis. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Iansislean economy, worth an astonishing 26,720 trillion generals 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Soda Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. 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 a breathtaking 564,816 generals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, patriotic citizens simply tend to applaud rather than sing the nation's praises, organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, and the legislature keeps promising "more study" of corruption allegations against the parliamentary whip system. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Iansisle's national animal is the seagull, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Iansisle is ranked 332,385^th in the world and 9^th in A Modern World for Most Cultured, scoring 34 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.