The Queen's State of Tyri is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 45.799 billion Tyrians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but sluggish Tyrian economy, worth a remarkable 1,171 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 25,576 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to comfort a crying baby between the hours of 6 pm and 8 pm, a valid legal defense is 'dead men tell no tales', debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, and cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyri's national animal is the deer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Tyri is ranked 282,802^nd in the world and 1^st in United Europa for Most Developed, scoring 49.1 on the Human Development Index.