The People's Republic of Tibyrsk is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 252 million Tibyrskayans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 57.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Tibyrskayan economy, worth 18.5 trillion Tibyrskayan rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 73,465 Tibyrskayan rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Contestants on Tibyrsk's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, breastfeeding mothers are replacing smokers to loiter outside the workplace, and a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tibyrsk's national animal is the tiger, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Tibyrsk is ranked 72,852^nd in the world and 1,523^rd in The North Pacific for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 2,485.5 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.