The Holy Empire of North-Iberia is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ignacio I with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 6.988 billion North-Iberians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valladolid. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80.9%.

The frighteningly efficient North-Iberian economy, worth a remarkable 2,429 trillion Pesetas a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 347,705 Pesetas, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,909,809 per year while the poor average 32,175, a ratio of 59.4 to 1.

Young people crowd pizza parlors praying to 'The Supreme Pizza, His Immaculate Munchiness', diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, and boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. North-Iberia's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

North-Iberia is ranked 1,821^st in the world and 2^nd in Catholic for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 16,044.17 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.