The Dictatorship of Izikstan is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, frequent executions, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.336 billion Izikstanians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aykar. The average income tax rate is 65.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Izikstanian economy, worth 202 trillion Ainakhs 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 86,333 Ainakhs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Dozens of viewers tune in weekly to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, the government is said to have a martyrdom complex, cremation is compulsory for the deceased, and in court almost every witness is a hostile witness. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Izikstan's national animal is the Falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Izikstan is ranked 298,125^th in the world and 2,102^nd in the Rejected Realms for Nicest Citizens, with 0.51 average smiles per day.