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The HYDRA Command Guardian of Tyrantopol is a mammoth, orderly nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.225 billion Tyrantopolians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.3%.

The Tyrantopolian economy, worth 409 trillion Dinars 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 65,725 Dinars, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

If you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise, exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes, citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want, and theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyrantopol's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tyrantopol is ranked 176,325^th in the world and 2^nd in HYDRA Command for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 6,973.82 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.