The Armed Republic of Ikar is a mid-sized, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 81 million Ikarians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.0%.

The thriving Ikarian economy, worth 5.61 trillion Ikoes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 69,301 Ikoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 195,624 per year while the poor average 19,652, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Parents receive hefty fines for telling kids to eat their vegetables, rabbits are known to spontaneously explode without warning, Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused, and drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ikar's national animal is the Penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Ikar is ranked 298,393^rd in the world and 4,253^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.93 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.