The People's Republic of Irisdina Bernhard is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.293 billion Irisdina Bernhardians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.3%.

The sizeable but inefficient Irisdina Bernhardian economy, worth 91.6 trillion brains 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 black market in Trout Farming, Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, 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 39,943 brains, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Only lightning has a chance of striking Leader twice, citizens have voted the song "Leader Smells Like A Zombie" as their new national anthem, citizens all over Irisdina Bernhard squeal in delight at the return of pockets, and politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Irisdina Bernhard's national animal is the zombie, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Irisdina Bernhard is ranked 253,612^th in the world and 67^th in SAFT Puppets for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 15,458.23 Standard Monetary Units.