The Protectorate of Ishmiel is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ban on automobiles, and ritual sacrifices. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 40.743 billion Ishmielians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ishmiel City. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ishmielian economy, worth an astonishing 12,260 trillion waines a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 300,923 waines, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Ishmiel City Natural History Museum, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, most barbers are also surgeons, and politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive. Ishmiel's national animal is the whale, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is a major religion.

Ishmiel is ranked 260,357^th in the world and 119^th in Canada for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 12,939.72 Standard Monetary Units.