The Corporate Empire of Teitoku Ippan is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Teitoku II with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 22.642 billion Ippanians 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, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ryuko City. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The all-consuming Ippanian economy, worth a remarkable 7,918 trillion Kawaii Coins a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 349,738 Kawaii Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived, everyone apparently sends Emperor Teitoku II hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child, adults hang around outside comic stores to ask kids to go and buy magazines for them, and forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Teitoku Ippan's national animal is the Kamui, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Hinokami.

Teitoku Ippan is ranked 234,084^th in the world and 133^rd in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.78 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.