The Loving Couple of I Ship It- is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Fury with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, national health service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.773 billion I Ship It-ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Earth. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient I Ship It-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,088 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 140,090 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Former slaves find themselves being herded onto ships once more, giant no-kill traps baited with Bapst Red Ribbon and vintage bicycles have been popping up in back alleys nationwide, this year's hottest seller is plenary indulgence, and citizens have to stick a fork into an electrical outlet to get a buzz. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. I Ship It-'s national animal is the dove, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Cards.

I Ship It- is ranked 312,945^th in the world and 142^nd in Empire of Great Britain for Most Cultured, scoring 54 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.