The Democratic Republic of Itsebed is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Derek Rigitalis II with an even hand, and notable for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.35 billion Itsebeds are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 63.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Itsebedian economy, worth 61.0 trillion Kuwaiti Dinars a year, is dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,200 Kuwaiti Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low, third world countries are rich in "I Love Itsebed City" t-shirts, people find it hard to relate to soldiers because of the dehumanising masks they wear, and the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried Lion Dung" has been declared a national treasure. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Itsebed's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Itsebed is ranked 238,458^th in the world and 533^rd in Europe for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4.56 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.