The CosmopolitanState of The IGER Civilization is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the State Control Council with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 25.8 billion Citizens of the IGER 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 Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Visp on Planet Earth. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient IGER economy, worth an astonishing 14,319 trillion Monetary Base Units 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is a breathtaking 555,019 Monetary Base Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Accusations of corruption stick when the accused are long-gone, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, Scrabble champions have been left scrambling for scraps, and most Citizens of the IGER would sell their own grandmother. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The IGER Civilization's national animal is the Sphinx, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is humanistic atheism.

The IGER Civilization is ranked 332,366^th in the world and 4^th in SICON for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -44.86 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.