The Republic of Ilberta is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 7 million Ilbertans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 71.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Ilbertan economy, worth 47.6 billion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 6,795 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ilberta's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ilberta is ranked 317,137^th in the world and 2,358^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -74.83 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.