The Empire of Tyburia is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Lara with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 9.889 billion Tyburians 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 Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Helos City. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Tyburian economy, worth 143 trillion Marleyan Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 14,547 Marleyan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, soldiers are equipped with multi-million Marleyan Dollar battlesuits, the government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption, and many parents are becoming frustrated with their children's choices in spouses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyburia's national animal is the Titans, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is War Hammer.

Tyburia is ranked 74,324^th in the world and 1^st in Marley for Largest Black Market, with 5.24 trillion Standard Monetary Units.