The Empire of Ipeonia is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Arthur with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, unlimited-speed roads, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 5.35 billion Ipeonics are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arthuropolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Gaucho economy, worth 893 trillion pilas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 167,055 pilas, with the richest citizens earning 9.6 times as much as the poorest.

Big Beef has a steak in national politics, not all rivers run to the sea, the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, and people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ipeonia's national animal is the harpy eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Ipeonic imperial cult.

Ipeonia is ranked 305,947^th in the world and 12^th in Ipeonic Empire for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.34 kickbacks per hour.