The Empire of Ipeonia is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Arthur with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, prohibition of alcohol, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 5.474 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 30.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Gaucho economy, worth 924 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 168,846 pilas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 667,077 per year while the poor average 28,934, a ratio of 23.1 to 1.

'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office, racial and religious segregation has become rife as the various groups are loath to mingle, there's a hole in the heart of every Gaucho city, and former arms manufacturing CEOs are now delivering food for minimum wage. 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 46,575^th in the world and 4^th in Ipeonic Empire for Largest Governments, scoring 23.22 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.