The Department of Isere is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Jean-Pierre Barbier with an even hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 17.353 billion Iséroises are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grenoble. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.5%.

The very strong Isérois economy, worth a remarkable 1,341 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,331 francs, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

Hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", gay men commonly complain about their time of the month, lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, and devotion to God is only skin-deep. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Isere's national animal is the lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Isere is ranked 159,116^th in the world and 48^th in Department Store for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,542.08 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.