The Fraternal Federation of Ilisseia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Pietro Victor Henry Aiden with an even hand, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, zero percent divorce rate, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 6.978 billion Ilisseians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illondcamwigburg. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ilisseian economy, worth 848 trillion Ili Rubles a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 121,578 Ili Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are expected to carve their own toys, politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, ratings for schools' curricula range from 'Pure as the Driven Snow' to 'Late Night TV', and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ilisseia's national animal is the Sun Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ilisseia is ranked 207,429^th in the world and 9,990^th in The North Pacific for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -37.79 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.