The Most Serene Republic of Iodinia is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Alexandra Ericsen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.689 billion Iodinians 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 enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elaburg. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Iodinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,129 trillion ionics a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 168,822 ionics, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One does not simply walk into the tundra, diplomats are always trying to convince other nations to adopt l33t speak, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, and clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iodinia's national animal is the grey seal, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Iodinia is ranked 1,731^st in the world and 49^th in The East Pacific for Healthiest Citizens, with 29.18 bananas ingested per day.