The Impireach Cheilteach of Ierna is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Árd Rí Ó Canannáin with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.652 billion Iernans 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hibernia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Iernan economy, worth a remarkable 2,378 trillion Valeras a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 223,333 Valeras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scaffolding is built around scaffolding to give safe access, the government violently suppresses separatist movements, there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services, and stealing from a clothesline is a serious offence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ierna's national animal is the Great Irish Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Ierna is ranked 280,060^th in the world and 32^nd in New Western Atlantic for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 28.85 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.