The Incorporated States of The Last Issue is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Barry White with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, strictly enforced bedtime, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 37.492 billion Last Issueans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Last Issuean economy, worth a remarkable 6,754 trillion Barries a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 180,155 Barries, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An alabaster statue of an ancient cat-deity takes pride of place in the centre of The Last Issue City, the horniness of the great-horned White is considered a national priority, workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year, and from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in The Last Issue. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Last Issue's national animal is the White, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is T S O P.

The Last Issue is ranked 87,538^th in the world and 7^th in Wyndia for Most Armed, with 0.53 weapons per person.