The Allied States of The Iron Lions is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Father Lionel Atrox with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, ban on automobiles, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 16.416 billion Iron Lions are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Father Lion's Hall. The average income tax rate is 98.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Iron Lionisian economy, worth a remarkable 2,584 trillion Lionisian Crowns a year, is highly specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 157,468 Lionisian Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's more than one way to skin a diplomat, international negotiations always lead to a lot of missile-laneous expenses, the nation is relieved that all of the recent madness has finally come to an end, and the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Iron Lions's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Secularism.

The Iron Lions is ranked 307,655^th in the world and 5,715^th in The North Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -9.7 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.