The Confederal Republics of International Socialist Union is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by The Central Executive Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate population of 8.297 billion Post-Nationals enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ISU-City. The average income tax rate is 98.7%.

The frighteningly efficient post-national economy, worth a remarkable 1,964 trillion Work-Hour Vouchers 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 and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 236,748 Work-Hour Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside, films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, trains and passengers alike are often late, and Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping. Crime is totally unknown. International Socialist Union's national animal is the Capitalist Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

International Socialist Union is ranked 729^th in the world and 13^th in The Communist Bloc for Nicest Citizens, with 111.25 average smiles per day.