The Supreme Dictatorship of The Iron League is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Universal Ruler with an iron fist, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, infamous sell-swords, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 42.147 billion Iron Leaguerans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The minute, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while Environment and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Iron League City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Iron Leaguer economy, worth an astonishing 29,735 trillion gils a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 705,521 gils, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,645,609 per year while the poor average 41,652, a ratio of 111 to 1.

Punk rockers smash it up and then clean it up, the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools, in coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho), and restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food. 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. The Iron League's national animal is the lueshi, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Supreme Universal Rulerism.

The Iron League is ranked 86^th in the world and 1^st in Supremacy for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 993.17 on the Bus Surprisal Index.