The Radchaai Province of Ifreann is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Anaander Mianaai with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, rampant corporate plagiarism, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 40.791 billion Iffies are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ifreann Palace. The income tax rate is 100%.

The all-consuming Iffish economy, worth a remarkable 9,910 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an amazing 242,966 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain, trains and passengers alike are often late, fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers, and it's a long jump to get onto the housing ladder. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ifreann's national animal is the fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is the Radchaai religion.

Ifreann is ranked 973^rd in the world and 1^st in The Isles O Chocolate Coatings for Highest Food Quality, scoring 361.38 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.