The Federation of Tyurmia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, otherworldly petting zoo, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 919 million Tyurmians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 55.4%.

The Tyurmian economy, worth 53.0 trillion Lemurianoes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 57,721 Lemurianoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Basket-weaving is the nation's latest fad, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery, and one complaint of Tyurmia's new periodic table is it's easy to confuse fearlessleaderium with gloriousleaderium. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyurmia's national animal is the Velociraptor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tyurmia is ranked 199,246^th in the world and 8,311^th in the South Pacific for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 52.17 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.