The Fortified Nation of Iron Dog is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Ragnar Hatebreed with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, vat-grown people, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 26.164 billion Iron Dogians 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Industry, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Denver. The average income tax rate is 9.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Iron Dogian economy, worth an astonishing 10,639 trillion gold coins a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 406,651 gold coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Human sacrifice offerings die with apples in their mouths, the drive to dismantle public transport has crashed and burned, every computer glitch triggers an immediate counter-espionage response, and the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Iron Dog's national animal is the Dire Wolve, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Æsir.

Iron Dog is ranked 1,672^nd in the world and 1^st in The Coalition States of America for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 8,599.08 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.