The Republic of Tyhr is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, compulsory gun ownership, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 3.932 billion Tyhrians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 35.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Tyhrian economy, worth 643 trillion pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 163,748 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage, military minds worry that 'the blue screen of death' on brand new operating systems may be a literal description, Tyhr has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, and cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyhr's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tyhr is ranked 13,087^th in the world and 66^th in Gardenia Botanicum for Lowest Crime Rates, with 96.41 law-abiding acts per hour.