The Irish Republican Army of Continuity Army Council is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Dáithí Ó Conaill with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The devout population of 2.333 billion Continuity Army Councilians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Athlone. The average income tax rate is 62.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Continuity Army Councilian economy, worth 24.9 trillion Irish pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 10,656 Irish pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Continuity Army Council has designated Athlone as its capital city, Dáithí Ó Conaill has just been declared ruler of Continuity Army Council in an international press conference, and Roman Catholicism has been named as Continuity Army Council's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Continuity Army Council's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Continuity Army Council is ranked 313,451^st in the world and 4^th in Lightbound for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -60.42 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.