The Guinness of St James Gate Brewery is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Arthur Guinness with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, ritual sacrifices, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 26.574 billion St James Gate Breweryians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dublin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 75.7%.

The frighteningly efficient St James Gate Breweryian economy, worth a remarkable 7,604 trillion irish pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 286,171 irish pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 880,900 per year while the poor average 71,819, a ratio of 12.3 to 1.

Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit, terrorist videos start by thanking their sponsors, and explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. St James Gate Brewery's national animal is the toucan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Guinness.

St James Gate Brewery is ranked 57,456^th in the world and 6^th in Ireland for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 4,391.42 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.