The Republic of Icarema is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its state-planned economy, infamous sell-swords, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.783 billion Icaremen are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Icareman economy, worth 804 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 139,095 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, survivors receive aid from only the most environmentally-friendly transport, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, and things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Icarema's national animal is the anzu, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Icarema is ranked 10,392^nd in the world and 244^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 400.37 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.