The ChicagoKansas City Express of I 88 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Eisenhower with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, smutty television, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.988 billion Highwaymen are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aurora. The average income tax rate is 47.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Roadworthy economy, worth a remarkable 1,064 trillion tolls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 96,919 tolls, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Polygamy is legal, illegal book-trafficking rings dominate the black market, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, and they say the best compromise leaves everyone feeling a little unarmed. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. I 88's national animal is the Hornet, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Constructionist.

I 88 is ranked 252,703^rd in the world and 10,310^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 50.73 law-abiding acts per hour.