The Authoritarian Republic of Hypranio is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Big Guy with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 13.856 billion Hypranioans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baltimore. The average income tax rate is 87.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hypranioan economy, worth a remarkable 1,522 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 109,876 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hypranioan military drills look more like joint-The Black Hawks exercises than anything else, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, catching the latest tribal tournament is to die for, and job descriptions are required to list the length of their siesta breaks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hypranio's national animal is the Raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Hypranio is ranked 311,801^st in the world and 129^th in The Black Hawks for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.