The Holy Violet Easter Omelet of Cyclone Ranger Upsilon is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Random Lord Upsilon with an iron fist, and notable for its teetotalling pirates, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.08 billion Rangers 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Upsilon Central. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Windswept economy, worth 74.1 trillion silver bullets 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Pizza Delivery. 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 68,636 silver bullets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, raccoons are plump and satiated, some magnifier-wielding Rangers say Random Lord Upsilon seems a little lacking in something, and tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Cyclone Ranger Upsilon Blood Tithe. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cyclone Ranger Upsilon's national animal is the weasel, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Rangerism.

Cyclone Ranger Upsilon is ranked 330,869^th in the world and 14^th in Cyclone Rangers for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -12.69 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.