The Big Blue Marble of Ichiques is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, otherworldly petting zoo, and smutty television. The compassionate, devout population of 24.747 billion Ichiquesians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Papertown. The average income tax rate is 76.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Ichiquesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,597 trillion papers 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Average income is 64,551 papers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, the Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent, the military has forsaken terrestrial warfare, and giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Leader is a silly poophead. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ichiques's national animal is the flamingo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Movie Franchises.

Ichiques is ranked 114,399^th in the world and 5^th in Quiet Cottage on the Edge of the Cosmos for Highest Average Incomes, with 64,552 Standard Monetary Units.