The Softness of Izzalia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 753 million Izzalians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zaliz. The average income tax rate is 85.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Izzalian economy, worth 58.1 trillion plushes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Tourism. Average income is 77,164 plushes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise, the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, and bronze and marble supplies are running low as sculptors depict full-figured subjects. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Izzalia's national animal is the rainbow fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Izzalia is ranked 58,844^th in the world and 141^st in Refugia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,338.5 on the Gilded Widget Scale.