The Nephilim of IRyS is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by IRyS with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 5.674 billion IRySians 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 Defense, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heaven and Hell. The average income tax rate is 30.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving IRySian economy, worth 498 trillion hope and dreams a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,860 hope and dreams, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic, the skeletons of lost tourists litter the ground of the Great IRySian Desert, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, and the military will start wars with other nations on a lark. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. IRyS's national animal is the rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Hope.

IRyS is ranked 99,212^th in the world and 439^th in Remembrance for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,479.76 on the Gilded Widget Scale.