The Republic of Icarema is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, vat-grown people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 10.822 billion Icaremen are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Icareman economy, worth a remarkable 1,721 trillion dollars 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 Book Publishing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 159,118 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, and quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Icarema's national animal is the anzu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Icarema is ranked 7,210^th in the world and 170^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 482.49 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.