The Motherland of Tir Epia is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Vikentiy Dmitriev with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, soft-spoken computers, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.697 billion Tir Epians 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 medium-sized, 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 Ylaxginia. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tir Epian economy, worth 619 trillion Credits 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, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 229,548 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Kitchen patrol is dominated by ten-year-old runts, Tir Epian watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, and typing Vikentiy Dmitriev's name into a search engine always gives zero matches. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tir Epia's national animal is the Bull, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Order of Eegrong.

Tir Epia is ranked 320,723^rd in the world and 72^nd in Ensio for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -8.94 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.