The Empire of Tuytura is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The devout population of 313 million Tuyturans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Tuyturan economy, worth 13.6 trillion Yulinas 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, 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 43,300 Yulinas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Celebrities sit helplessly as they are labeled "pompous womples" by Leader, the "give and take" of international diplomacy often happens at gunpoint, human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, and anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tuytura's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tuytura is ranked 121,381^st in the world and 4,867^th in Lazarus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.