The Armed Republic of Ikar is a large, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 115 million Ikarians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.6%.

The thriving Ikarian economy, worth 8.25 trillion Ikoes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 71,723 Ikoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 202,459 per year while the poor average 20,339, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, hunters often become the hunted, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, and national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ikar's national animal is the Penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Ikar is ranked 259,998^th in the world and 4,069^th in The North Pacific for Least Corrupt Governments, with 88.53 percentage of bribes refused.