The Lovable Larrikin of Istillian is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Fornost Erain with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, unlimited-speed roads, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 16.126 billion Istillian's are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government prioritizes Industry, with Defense, Administration, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Irminsul. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Istillian economy, worth a remarkable 3,100 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 192,275 dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,740,897 per year while the poor average 2,515, a ratio of 692 to 1.

A popular Istillian saying is 'wishing upon a fallen jet engine', it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away", citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account, and you can say what you like about the genocidal murderers that rule Istillian but at least the trains run on time. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Istillian's national animal is the Thylacine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Thybelieve.

Istillian is ranked 265,514^th in the world and 1,183^rd in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 0.69 average smiles per day.