The Commonwealth of Ibarabayashi is a mammoth, cultured nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.186 billion Ibarabayashians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Akamori. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Ibarabayashian economy, worth a remarkable 1,100 trillion Kerubins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 212,265 Kerubins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Ibarabayashian weed picker are way up, all facts are created equal, and museums offer moralization or your money back. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ibarabayashi's national animal is the Raccoon Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Ibarabayashi is ranked 342^nd in the world and 12^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Secular, with 99.27 Atheism Rate.