The Confederal Republics of International Socialist Union is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Worker Councils with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.385 billion International Socialist Unionians 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, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ISU-City. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient International Socialist Unionian economy, worth 792 trillion ISU-Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 180,812 ISU-Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel, government statisticians explain census inaccuracies by declaring that "Sith happens", the nation excels at displacement, and one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man. Crime is totally unknown. International Socialist Union's national animal is the Capitalist Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Scientific Atheism.

International Socialist Union is ranked 1,355^th in the world and 13^th in The Internationale for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 22,332.08 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.