The Very Old and Collectable Can of Iron City is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pittsburgh Brewing Company with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 1.098 billion Iron Cityians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Creighton PA. The average income tax rate is 18.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Iron Cityian economy, worth 50.0 trillion cans a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,573 cans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Suit-clad businessmen have been taking advantage of the relaxed welfare qualifications by shopping with food stamps, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, the government prides itself on being smug and condescending to idiots, and stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues. Crime is well under control. Iron City's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Iron City is ranked 170,778^th in the world and 429^th in Artificial Suspicious Powers for Most Primitive, scoring -59.58 on the Scary Big Number Scale.