The People's Republic of IV Lyrical Founder Brigade is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.295 billion IV Lyrical Founder Brigadeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government prioritizes Welfare, although Education, Defense, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 32.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish IV Lyrical Founder Brigadean economy, worth 304 trillion bytecoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 29,591 bytecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. IV Lyrical Founder Brigade's national animal is the blue pig.

IV Lyrical Founder Brigade is ranked 38,634^th in the world and 1^st in The Fourth International for Nicest Citizens, with 17.69 average smiles per day.