The Republic of Ispahan is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Kartir with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, compulsory vegetarianism, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 2.362 billion Ispahanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Isfahan. The average income tax rate is 47.9%.

The thriving Ispahanian economy, worth 175 trillion rials a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,161 rials, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Nobody likes bad boys any more, having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", and science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ispahan's national animal is the pegasus, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Islam.

Ispahan is ranked 27,094^th in the world and 10^th in Colonia Apollonis for Most Conservative, scoring 82 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.