The People's Republic of Impale is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory vegetarianism, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic population of 485 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 79.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Impalean economy, worth 61.1 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 125,956 Industrial Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights, parents who try to organize playdates for their kids have police drop through their ceilings, the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters, and what's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans. 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 84,505^th in the world and 4,710^th in Lazarus for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 3,321.54 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.