The Republic of Icarema is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 10.931 billion Icaremen are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Icareman economy, worth a remarkable 1,739 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, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 159,118 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, and quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces. 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 frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Icarema is ranked 328,197^th in the world and 4,184^th in the South Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 18.3 on the Bus Surprisal Index.