The Empire of Iravepchania is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Iravepchan with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.196 billion Iravepchanians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Umikuyoka. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Iravepchanian economy, worth 192 trillion corpteses 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 large, well-organized, 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 impressive 161,341 corpteses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, the government tries to improve relations with hostile countries by sending gift baskets, Iravepchan is the self-declared God of all Iravepchania, and commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iravepchania's national animal is the sacred gray cat nebelung, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Iravepchania is ranked 19,856^th in the world and 39^th in The Black Hawks for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.84 law-abiding acts per hour.