The Grand Empire of Tyrrin is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Grand Emperor Cathal IV with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 28.963 billion Tyrrinians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, although Education and Industry are also considered important, while Environment and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tyrrin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Tyrrinian economy, worth a remarkable 8,307 trillion Dromons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 286,829 Dromons, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,424,917 per year while the poor average 32,662, a ratio of 43.6 to 1.

Artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, strange men lingering in offices distributing television sets is a basis for a system of government, exploding toys that leak battery acid are back in the shops after the government declared child safety 'over-rated', and the nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Tyrrin's national animal is the Lossarach Horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Tyrrin is ranked 268,475^th in the world and 55^th in Esportiva for Most Conservative, scoring 33.08 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.