The Colony of The Iron Golem is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, frequent executions, and public floggings. The hard-working, devout population of 795 million Iron Golemians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.8%.

The very strong Iron Golemian economy, worth 59.6 trillion Diamonds a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,029 Diamonds, with the richest citizens earning 9.4 times as much as the poorest.

Nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom, and builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Iron Golem's national animal is the Zombie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Iron Golem is ranked 88,402^nd in the world and 4^th in IxCraft for Most Developed, scoring 64.53 on the Human Development Index.