The Semi-Theocratic Republic of Of the Golden Harp is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Jason O'Finnegan with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, flagrant waste-dumping, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 5.374 billion Golden Harpians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dublin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Golden Harpian economy, worth a remarkable 1,103 trillion Irish pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 205,390 Irish pounds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 821,153 per year while the poor average 34,515, a ratio of 23.8 to 1.

Golden Harpians firmly believe that their heroes never farted or popped their pimples, schoolboys trained in chivalry are encouraged to duel other boys for a maiden's hand, statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty, and death is nobody's business. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Of the Golden Harp's national animal is the Leprechaun, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Of the Golden Harp is ranked 63,231^st in the world and 1^st in The Celtic Lands of Europe and Colonies for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 150.77 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.