The Rāj of Istnaulia is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Rājan Taczer Agnivanshi XII with an iron fist, and notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.003 billion Istnaulians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vava. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Istnaulian economy, worth a remarkable 1,446 trillion Jāis a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 144,602 Jāis, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 919,573 per year while the poor average 9,400, a ratio of 97.8 to 1.

Hunters often become the hunted, the military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies, plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go, and Rājan Taczer Agnivanshi XII's Dreadnought-class tankbuster limousine is said to have more ammunition than the entire Brancalandian Army. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Istnaulia's national animal is the Snow Leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Redism.

Istnaulia is ranked 27,634^th in the world and 20^th in Aceon for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 262.36 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.