The Sultanate of Greater Ismir is a huge, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 402 million Greater Izmiri' are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Istanbul. The average income tax rate is 40.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Greater Izmir economy, worth 14.2 trillion ramz's a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 35,426 ramz's, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants, the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly, the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results, and the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Greater Ismir's national animal is the Anatolian Leopard, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Greater Ismir is ranked 73,868^th in the world and 32^nd in Greater Cyngland for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 2,845.06 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.