The People's Republic of Ichorios is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 871 million Ichoriosians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — prioritizes Education, with Administration, Environment, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. The average income tax rate is 74.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Ichoriosian economy, worth 34.3 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 39,332 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, late night talk show hosts are having a field day over Leader's questionably sane new coalition partners, soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads, and government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support'. Crime is totally unknown. Ichorios's national animal is the Nemean lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ichorios is ranked 329,822^nd in the world and 788^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring zero on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.