The Armed Nation of Kyrek is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Drek Jayron with an iron fist, and notable for its unlimited-speed roads, soft-spoken computers, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.182 billion Kyrekians 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, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Odeka. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Kyrekian economy, worth 385 trillion Kyrs 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. 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 an impressive 121,186 Kyrs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears, the army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth, the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, and military spending recently hit a new high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kyrek's national animal is the Arctic Python, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

Kyrek is ranked 40,536^th in the world and 4^th in The Southern Lands for Highest Average Incomes, with 121,186.4 Standard Monetary Units.