The Sister Republic of Cisalpine Insubria is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by First Consul Giacobino Muràt with an iron fist, and renowned for its vat-grown people, compulsory military service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 16.183 billion Insubrians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mirabella. The average income tax rate is 62.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cisalpine Insubrian economy, worth a remarkable 2,137 trillion Lire a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 132,093 Lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The law says that all Insubrians are created equal — no matter how they were created, newly-peaceful nations are forced to use assault rifles as farming tools due to a lack of funds for purchasing anything else, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cisalpine Insubria's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Cisalpine Insubria is ranked 35,430^th in the world and 10^th in ITALIA for Most Cultured, scoring 76 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.