The Republic of Isoverse is a large, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-working population of 95 million Ducks 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.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 20.4%.

The Duck economy, worth 4.49 trillion Duckcoins a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Basket Weaving, and Gambling. Average income is 47,257 Duckcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, the Duck Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, and traffic cops are puzzled to see that nobody exceeds the speed limits. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Isoverse's national animal is the Duck, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Isoverse is ranked 260,349^th in the world and 4,250^th in Artificial Solar System for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -41.47 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.