The Borderlands of Tyler Black is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.504 billion Tyler Blackians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Black Out. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.7%.

The very strong Tyler Blackian economy, worth 85.3 trillion Paroxyzms a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 56,742 Paroxyzms, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 335,004 per year while the poor average 4,452, a ratio of 75.2 to 1.

Taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death, the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, euthanasia is illegal, and maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Tyler Black's national animal is the Gods Last Gift, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Tyler Black is ranked 194,343^rd in the world and 2^nd in Drip Cityyyyyyyyy for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 878.5 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.