The Republic of Izern 43 is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 837 million Izern 43ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 56.2%.

The strong Izern 43ian economy, worth 54.5 trillion florins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,092 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, and the studies of art and philosophy are banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Izern 43's national animal is the tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Izern 43 is ranked 88,686^th in the world and 19^th in New Izern Farm Thingymabob for Largest Governments, scoring 17.66 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.