The Second Great Empire of Irsfamen is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Augustus Oterbea with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 7.777 billion Irsfamenis are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qaskaw. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Irsfameni economy, worth a remarkable 1,112 trillion Ampnotes a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 143,093 Ampnotes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign governments regularly accuse the Irsfameni military of war crimes, slow dancing is made trickier when Auntie Edna insists on standing between the couple's arms, military officers are given medals for disobeying orders, and vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Irsfamen's national animal is the Monarch Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Protestantism.

Irsfamen is ranked 6,914^th in the world and 15^th in Fifth Empire for Lowest Crime Rates, with 108.82 law-abiding acts per hour.