The Allied States of Irelord is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, compulsory vegetarianism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 502 million Irelordians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 83.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Irelordian economy, worth 36.1 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery and Tourism. Average income is 71,909 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, the media seems excessively interested in what Leader is wearing this season, it's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets, and the weather in Irelord City is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Irelord's national animal is the brachiosaurus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Irelord is ranked 45,445^th in the world and 561^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 160.59 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.