The Loving Couple of IShipIt- is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Margaret with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.191 billion IShipIt-ians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gazth-Sonika. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient IShipIt-ian economy, worth 850 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 137,301 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, politicians literally speak literally, foreign heads of state have taken out restraining orders against IShipIt-ian ambassadors, and the nation has unofficially betrayed its values. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. IShipIt-'s national animal is the dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

IShipIt- is ranked 150,670^th in the world and 3^rd in Grace of Gaia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 36,384.81 Standard Monetary Units.