The Hippie Free for All of Ishankh is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Princess Astarte with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 877 million Ishankhians 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 enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Agape Poli. The average income tax rate is 84.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Ishankhian economy, worth 73.9 trillion hugs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 84,296 hugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lavish state dinners in Agape Poli are the state's leading budgetary expenditure, it turns out you can teach cats new tricks, refugees from other nations are flocking to Ishankh's border, and research into 'designer babies' is banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ishankh's national animal is the sea snake, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Ishankh is ranked 36,922^nd in the world and 132^nd in The Free Nations Region for Smartest Citizens, with 43.12 quips per hour.