The Grand Duchy of Tirah is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Grand Duke Mishana with an iron fist, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 19.654 billion Tirahians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tirah City. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Tirahian economy, worth a remarkable 3,926 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 199,779 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A three-year-old has been selected to run the civil service, it takes all playtime for children to locate their friends among two hundred identical heads, the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities, and frustrated teenage boys are told that if they like it then they should have put a ring on it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tirah's national animal is the Pergrine falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Tirah is ranked 53,678^th in the world and 1^st in Zernxi Sector for Most Income Equality, scoring 58.44 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.