The Burnished Rows of Steel of Iron Bark is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Sister Christian with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, complete lack of prisons, and public floggings. The cynical, devout population of 21.268 billion Iron Barkians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marshalsea. The average income tax rate is 60.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Iron Barkian economy, worth a remarkable 2,091 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,343 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Acute politicians deride opposition members for being obtuse, politicians are losing their jobs in a plan to make the government 'leaner and fitter', aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, and treason is relative. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iron Bark's national animal is the laughing swordfish.

Iron Bark is ranked 46,918^th in the world and 4^th in Islam for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.23 law-abiding acts per hour.