The Grand Socialist Monarchy of Ioseppia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Overlady Jo the Irrationally Paranoid with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, humorless population of 23.864 billion Ioseppians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Iosingrad. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Ioseppian economy, worth a remarkable 5,990 trillion Ioseppian Bytes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 251,030 Ioseppian Bytes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone, the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation, workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year, and children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ioseppia's national animal is the Remorseless Starling, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Stupid.

Ioseppia is ranked 2,380^th in the world and 120^th in Osiris for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 3,841.9 on the Clooney Contribution Index.