The Sultanate of Tirail is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Static with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.834 billion Tirailians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ordrix. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Tirailian economy, worth a remarkable 1,042 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 215,727 dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,387,709 per year while the poor average 13,594, a ratio of 102 to 1.

The nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books, there is no such thing as an innocent fling in the Tirailian military, those who sing the national anthem off-key have the key thrown away, and psychological disorders are a taboo subject. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Tirail's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Xaos.

Tirail is ranked 332,685^th in the world and 74^th in Underworld for Nicest Citizens, with 0.07 average smiles per day.