The Institute of Iok-Sotot is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Dr Iok Sotot with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.48 billion Experiments are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal government is primarily concerned with Education, although Industry, Healthcare, and Environment are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Administratus. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Iok-Sototian economy, worth a remarkable 2,805 trillion Knols 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. 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 an amazing 375,123 Knols, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, good-looking soldier boys have celebrity status amongst the nation's homosexuals, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, and protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations. Crime is totally unknown. Iok-Sotot's national animal is the Lab Rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Unmasking.

Iok-Sotot is ranked 97,041^st in the world and 33^rd in The Fallout Wasteland for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 2,552.68 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.