The Ascendancy of Kreigsreich of Iron is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Chairman-Rank A1-2435 with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, strictly enforced bedtime, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.842 billion Ankhesekhats 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alpha Complex. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Ankhesekhat economy, worth a remarkable 1,280 trillion NationStates Dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Information Technology. 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 amazing 333,406 NationStates Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,243,766 per year while the poor average 62,663, a ratio of 19.8 to 1.

CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial Animal', and many rural villagers have never been more than a day's horse-ride from their birthplace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kreigsreich of Iron's national animal is the Animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Ministry of Religious Optimisation.

Kreigsreich of Iron is ranked 279,819^th in the world and 31^st in The Outer Rim for Most Primitive, scoring -331.72 on the Scary Big Number Scale.