The Unseelie Emirate of Ismstein is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Archfey Emir Flowerism with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.922 billion Isms are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Otherworld - Pandæmonium. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Ismian economy, worth 265 trillion Issles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 138,046 Issles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The green glow is a sign of clean energy, it is not politically correct to suspect that a serially convicted burglar might steal again, the Ismanticore is protected from hunting and slowly coming back from the brink of extinction, and frat-house partying has become the national pastime. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ismstein's national animal is the Ismanticore, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Erythrism.

Ismstein is ranked 55,123^rd in the world and 2^nd in Chronesia for Most Extreme, scoring 29.7 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.