The Commonwealth of Ikania is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Queen Alys with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 14.307 billion Ikanians 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saltonlee. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Ikanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,548 trillion pounds a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Uranium Mining industry. Average income is an impressive 108,254 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Posters on 'Ikanian Values' advise against being proud of Ikania, Maxtopian villagers starve by the time Ikanian officials even file the appropriate paperwork needed to help them, the government has announced its plans to construct a giant weaponised robot-cat, and Saltonlee Preparatory School for the Exceedingly Wealthy's basketball team is having a few off-years. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ikania's national animal is the brown bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Gnomianism.

Ikania is ranked 5,620^th in the world and 2^nd in Ridgefield for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 13,843.51 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.