The State of Ile de France is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, national health service, and frequent executions. The hard-working population of 29.402 billion Ile de Franceans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Social Policy. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.3%.

The powerhouse Ile de Francean economy, worth a remarkable 1,311 trillion betales a year, is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 44,595 betales, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

The welfare administration's new sweeping authority has forced the poor and needy to shop from pre-approved grocery lists, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, the study of medicine is popular throughout Ile de France, and the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ile de France's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ile de France is ranked 216,181^st in the world and 1^st in East Atlantic for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 46.9 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.