The Republic of IC-Water is a large, efficient nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 81 million IC-Waterians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Law & Order, Healthcare, and Public Transport are also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.6%.

The powerhouse IC-Waterian economy, worth 4.64 trillion Waters a year, is quite specialized and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Soda Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 57,274 Waters, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 223,095 per year while the poor average 10,044, a ratio of 22.2 to 1.

Loud Patriotic Music Day has been ranked the seventh best new holiday of the year, legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments, citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?", and what citizens give with one hand they take away with the other. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. IC-Water's national animal is the Goldfish, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

IC-Water is ranked 47,338^th in the world and 1,049^th in The North Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 43.26 kickbacks per hour.