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The Grand Federative Republic of Tyrantosaurus is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Thomas Jamison with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.542 billion Tyrantosaurians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Springfield. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Tyrantosaurian economy, worth a remarkable 2,774 trillion Grands a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 324,765 Grands, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,526,373 per year while the poor average 10,771, a ratio of 234 to 1.

Petitions to the government are being used to insulate politicians' office walls, fur coats have become the latest fashion trend, earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, and old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyrantosaurus's national animal is the Gray Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Church of Super-Jesus.

Tyrantosaurus is ranked 10,753^rd in the world and 1^st in Tyrants for Mutually Assured Destruction for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 412.7 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.