Spotlight on:

The Illusion of Isokenzar

“Rumours of our existence are highly exaggerated”

Overview • Dispatches • Policies • People • Government • Economy • Rank • Trend • Cards

The Illusion of Isokenzar is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Isocato with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, soft-spoken computers, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, humorless population of 6.252 billion Isokenzarians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Education, with Administration, Healthcare, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sector 47. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Isokenzarian economy, worth 872 trillion z-bits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 139,517 z-bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours, producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene, chewing tree bark proves to have limited value during childbirth, and the Communist Party claims that selling things for profit isn't necessarily capitalism. Crime is totally unknown. Isokenzar's national animal is the stinking dwarf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Ongoing Existential Crisis.

Isokenzar is ranked 62,122^nd in the world and 2,707^th in the South Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 46,040.76 Standard Monetary Units.

Top
1%Top
5%Top
10%Top
5%Top
10%