The People's Republic of The Den Isola is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Theodore Marquis with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.842 billion Den Isolans 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 Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Graad. The average income tax rate is 89.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Den Isolan economy, worth 278 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Tourism. Average income is 97,820 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, death is nobody's business, the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award, and Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Graad to enjoy their national art. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Den Isola's national animal is the hare, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Den Isola is ranked 9,448^th in the world and 214^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 5,753.95 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.