The Baby shark of Tyrannical Porcupines United is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by turnip with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, ban on automobiles, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.498 billion carls are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of city of capitals. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The frighteningly efficient carl economy, worth 816 trillion Deskers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 148,466 Deskers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Frat-house partying has become the national pastime, visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, populations of two-headed kookaburras have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, and citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Tyrannical Porcupines United's national animal is the kookaburra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Jeff Goldblum.

Tyrannical Porcupines United is ranked 14,958^th in the world and 32^nd in The Black Hawks for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 329.46 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.