The Impireach Cheilteach of Ierna is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Árd Rí Ó Canannáin with an iron fist, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, public floggings, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.581 billion Iernans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hibernia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Iernan economy, worth a remarkable 2,350 trillion Valeras a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 222,124 Valeras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hell is not always other people, troublemakers boast about how many times they have to visit their therapist, the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists, and acrimonious legal battles result during divorce proceedings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ierna's national animal is the Great Irish Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Ierna is ranked 2,140^th in the world and 1^st in New Western Atlantic for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 20,790.76 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.