The Despotic Tyranny of Birkesia is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Generalissimo of Tyranny with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.446 billion Birkesians 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tyrannopolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.7%.

The all-consuming Birkesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,647 trillion scraps of paper 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 an amazing 221,242 scraps of paper, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 719,666 per year while the poor average 51,244, a ratio of 14.0 to 1.

Anti-government demagogues have a devil of a time evading authorities, citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles, modern warfare's call of duty isn't popular with gamers these days, and escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Birkesia's national animal is the dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is DEAREST LEADERISM.

Birkesia is ranked 3,688^th in the world and 16^th in Psychotic Dictatorships for Most Patriotic, with 91.43 flags saluted per person per day.