The Tarkin Editor of Tummin is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by King Edward with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 17.621 billion Tummen are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bristol. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.0%.

The strong Tumminian economy, worth a remarkable 1,320 trillion Tillings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Information Technology. Average income is 74,944 Tillings, with the richest citizens earning 7.1 times as much as the poorest.

Government officials are held to the highest standard of morality, the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, and any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Tummin's national animal is the Swan and its national religion is Anglicanism.

Tummin is ranked 102,189^th in the world and 38^th in Tarkin for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,271.08 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.