The Republic of Irish Dragon is a mid-sized, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 50 million Irish Dragonians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 10.8%.

The strong Irish Dragonian economy, worth 3.41 trillion airgeads a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 68,246 airgeads, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

National park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, an epidemic of unpopped kernels causes movie goers to gnash their teeth, more than one company makes the board game Monopoly, and minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments. Crime is relatively low. Irish Dragon's national animal is the dragon.

Irish Dragon is ranked 108,793^rd in the world and 341^st in Starlight for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.