The Holy Empire of Irigoland is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Holy Imperator and General Smegmaticus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, compulsory military service, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.727 billion Irigians 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 Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Megabase 01. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 24.4%.

The all-consuming Irigolandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,089 trillion pennies a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 124,802 pennies, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 781,767 per year while the poor average 8,444, a ratio of 92.6 to 1.

A small country is wondering where their capitol building's gold dome went, everyone apparently sends Holy Imperator and General Smegmaticus hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child, hit TV show 'The eXecution Factor' is a critical success, and heroes long thought dead are promptly killed upon their return. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Irigoland's national animal is the Jesus Bird, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Smegmatism.

Irigoland is ranked 285,877^th in the world and 268^th in The Union of Democratic States for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -274.68 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.