The Most Serene Rainbow of Ishtimbine is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Executive Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 7.202 billion Ishtimbenians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ishtimbine City. The average income tax rate is 97.9%.

The strong Ishtimbinean economy, worth 800 trillion Gold Standards 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 an impressive 111,088 Gold Standards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The freedom to be free is always just out of reach, doctors prescribe videos of political debates to patients with insomnia, students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class, and police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ishtimbine's national animal is the Sitting Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Abrahamic Faiths.

Ishtimbine is ranked 4,848^th in the world and 287^th in The North Pacific for Healthiest Citizens, with 20.06 bananas ingested per day.