The Empire of Iran-e is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 592 million Iranians 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 tiny, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, although Defense, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rhages. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Iranian economy, worth 77.7 trillion Darics a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 131,198 Darics, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 568,714 per year while the poor average 19,219, a ratio of 29.6 to 1.

It's a common sight to see angry commuters with grenade launchers mounted on their vehicles, an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat, many rural villagers have never been more than a day's horse-ride from their birthplace, and patriots insist that size does matter. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Iran-e's national animal is the Shahbaz and Simurgh, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Iran-e is ranked 43,459^th in the world and 19^th in Geopolity for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,416.46 on the Gilded Widget Scale.