The Republic of Iouae is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by John Glenn with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 16.614 billion Iouaeans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bay Village. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.8%.

The strong Iouaean economy, worth 670 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 40,373 pounds, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

Prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos, childish pranks are no laughing matter, government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, and hordes of gardening enthusiasts are being banished from cities nationwide. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate. Iouae's national animal is the tiger, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Jainism.

Iouae is ranked 235,747^th in the world and 2^nd in iouae for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.