The Federation of International Sports Committee is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, devout population of 470 million International Sports Committeeans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals keep a keen eye out for any attempt to organize such a thing, and ruthlessly crush it. Income tax is unheard of.

The International Sports Committeean economy, worth 18.5 trillion pesos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,295 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Asking 'does my bum look big in this?' leads to 30 hours of self-esteem classes, primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment Leader's hair, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, and the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. International Sports Committee's national animal is the squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

International Sports Committee is ranked 15,923^rd in the world and 826^th in Lazarus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 53.84 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.