The Kingdom of Ichirokuhachi is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by King Ronan Alfonso Bermudo de Trastámara with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 5.569 billion Iberians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kinmachi. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Iberian economy, worth a remarkable 2,123 trillion pesetas 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. 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 an amazing 381,318 pesetas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

T-shirts displaying a photo of King Ronan Alfonso Bermudo de Trastámara performing the Full-Monty are selling out, picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them, baseball caps are the new fashion trend, and heated town halls quickly descend into shootouts between politicians and their constituents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Ichirokuhachi's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Arianism.

Ichirokuhachi is ranked 5,330^th in the world and 17^th in Fifth Empire for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 547.37 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.