The People's Republic of Tyrantistica is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, zero percent divorce rate, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 393 million Tyrantisticans 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Tyrantistican economy, worth 1.86 trillion Jellybeans 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, highly specialized black market in 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 4,739 Jellybeans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs, the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Tyrantistica after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size, and interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyrantistica's national animal is the Big yoaf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tyrantistica is ranked 258,459^th in the world and 10,038^th in the South Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 0.6 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.