The Grand Nomadic Empire of The Iron Khagnate is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Temir Khan XV with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, ubiquitous missile silos, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.646 billion Alchons are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thermopylia. The average income tax rate is 87.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alchonian economy, worth 816 trillion Lire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 175,728 Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, every microwave and toaster is being disassembled and probed by inspectors, and it's always rabbit season. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Iron Khagnate's national animal is the Horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Secularism.

The Iron Khagnate is ranked 8,710^th in the world and 61^st in Europe for Most Patriotic, with 71.64 flags saluted per person per day.