The United Socialist States of of Ipotehm is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The People's Supreme Council with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.009 billion War Machines are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Citadel. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ipotehmian economy, worth 857 trillion IpoRubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 213,875 IpoRubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench, and a referendum must be held in order for any new law to be passed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ipotehm's national animal is the Fascist Snake and Capitalist Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is secular.

Ipotehm is ranked 266,777^th in the world and 5,474^th in the Rejected Realms for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 17,965.52 Standard Monetary Units.