The Blue Free Land of Ikaria is a titanic, genial nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 20.648 billion Ikarians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ikaria Speranza. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ikarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,279 trillion 🌬 spirits a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 61,946 🌬 spirits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, unemployed judges can be found squatting in abandoned courthouses, and pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ikaria's national animal is the 🕊 dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ikaria is ranked 19,626^th in the world and 1^st in America for Nicest Citizens, with 22.81 average smiles per day.