The Grand Duchy of Tirah is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Grand Duke Mishana with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 29.145 billion Tirahians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tirah City. The average income tax rate is 98.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Tirahian economy, worth a remarkable 6,081 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 208,679 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The skeletons of lost tourists litter the ground of the Great Tirahian Desert, the nation's security is vitally dependent on imports of Catholicism, a positive GPA is all it takes to get an elite education, and older ladies are inundated with offers to help them cross the road. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tirah's national animal is the Pergrine falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Tirah is ranked 317,288^th in the world and 4^th in Zernxi Sector for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -8.39 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.