The Holy Exarchate of Iron Alliance is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Blessed Exarch Zorrak IX with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, pith helmet sales, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.721 billion Pyramidians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maeleum. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Pyramidian economy, worth a remarkable 1,111 trillion Forged Soliduses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 235,377 Forged Soliduses, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

Banning party poppers has been a real party pooper, citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin, the tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches, and after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iron Alliance's national animal is the Chthonic Daemon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Cult of Ch'thon.

Iron Alliance is ranked 278,660^th in the world and 10,502^nd in Lazarus for Most Armed, with 0.15 weapons per person.