The Federal Democratic Republic of Ikheria is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Anatoly Lutkin with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 8.702 billion Ikherians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Federal City of Yeltsingrad. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ikherian economy, worth a remarkable 1,580 trillion Ruble Euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 181,579 Ruble Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One does not simply walk into the tundra, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, and politicians tend to jump ship to whichever party is currently leading in the polls. Crime is totally unknown. Ikheria's national animal is the Stone Louse bug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ikheria is ranked 190,083^rd in the world and 1^st in Ikherian Parking for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 310.91 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.