The Oppressed Peoples of Tyranoland is a small, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 26 million Tyranolandians 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Tyranolandian economy, worth 425 billion Pains a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Basket Weaving. Average income is 16,362 Pains, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, and tourists visiting the nation are harangued for being capitalist pig-dogs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyranoland's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tyranoland is ranked 198,477^th in the world and 3,489^th in The East Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.