The Cosmopolitan State of The IGER Civilization is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the SRI Command Authority with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 16.432 billion Citizens of the IGER 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Visp on Planet Earth. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient IGER economy, worth a remarkable 7,571 trillion IGER-Credits 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 460,762 IGER-Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Brown Sugar 101 is a popular course at community colleges, young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves, residents of houses built on a foundation of wishful thinking are prone to an odd sinking feeling, and the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The IGER Civilization's national animal is the genetically reconstructed Mammoth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is scienctific atheism.

The IGER Civilization is ranked 162^nd in the world and 1^st in SICON for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 38,863.54 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.