The Liberal Utopia of Itsebed is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by the Unnamed One with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 1.699 billion Itsebeds are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 77.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Itsebedian economy, worth 63.5 trillion Rupiae Moscoviaes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 37,400 Rupiae Moscoviaes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Itsebed has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, it's all quiet on the western front, the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong, and biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Itsebed's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Itsebed is ranked 216,318^th in the world and 889^th in Europe for Largest Populations, with 1.70 billion capita.