The Nomadic Peoples of Texian Ranch 09 is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.752 billion Texian Ranchers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Texian economy, worth 860 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 73,181 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, the diplomatic corps stinks, economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society, and films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Texian Ranch 09's national animal is the porpoise, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Texian Ranch 09 is ranked 68,072^nd in the world and 83^rd in Chicken overlords for Largest Governments, scoring 19.62 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.