The No Longer Bound By Gravity of Irenton is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by The Eternal Emperor Nicholas with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 16.109 billion Irentons 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chronove. The average income tax rate is 52.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Irenton economy, worth 473 trillion livres a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,410 livres, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, The Eternal Emperor Nicholas has just been declared ruler of Irenton in an international press conference, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Irenton's national animal is the Fear of the Dark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Militarily enforced Atheism.

Irenton is ranked 282,769^th in the world and 3^rd in Cymopolia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -29.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.