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The Dictatorship of Ironak is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 832 million Ironakians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Ironakian economy, worth 12.7 trillion Enions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 15,296 Enions, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Insolent whistleblowers receive their just desserts on deserted isles, ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain, it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ironak's national animal is the Ironakian Fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ironak is ranked 296,308^th in the world and 29^th in Lucent for Most Developed, scoring 45.99 on the Human Development Index.