The Principality of Incense is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Angmar with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 30.335 billion Ivoreans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amber Blood and Gold. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Incensean economy, worth a remarkable 6,413 trillion Sickles a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 211,426 Sickles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, the line of royal succession just experienced a hardware interrupt, garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau', and bizarre-looking creatures called 'Vixhexendogs' dominate wildlife preserves. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Incense's national animal is the Vixhexen, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Universal Life Church.

Incense is ranked 305^th in the world and 1^st in Ivory Tower for Nicest Citizens, with 135.86 average smiles per day.