The People's Republic of Impale is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 339 million Impaleans 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 76.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Impalean economy, worth 36.5 trillion Industrial Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 107,706 Industrial Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Impalean novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Leader, an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, war vets look after war animals, and unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Impale's national animal is the Iron Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Impale is ranked 42,757^th in the world and 2,164^th in Lazarus for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,175.57 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.