The Cosmopolitan State of The IGER Civilization is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the SRI Command Authority with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, free-roaming dinosaurs, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.698 billion Citizens of the IGER 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Visp on Planet Earth. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient IGER economy, worth a remarkable 5,975 trillion IGER-Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 436,243 IGER-Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of IGER-Credits are being poured into a space program, one does not simply walk into the tundra, airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path, and truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The IGER Civilization's national animal is the genetically reconstructed Mammoth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is scienctific atheism.

The IGER Civilization is ranked 155,582^nd in the world and 2^nd in SICON for Largest Black Market, with 114 billion Standard Monetary Units.