The Participatory Democracy of Turons is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Representative Erasmus Centili with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory vegetarianism, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.812 billion Turonsians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government prioritizes Education, with Administration, Environment, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Defense isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neophilia. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Turonsian economy, worth a remarkable 2,535 trillion dimes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 150,788 dimes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists on maritime expeditions return with a healthy glow, the recycled air in planes is nauseating, digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution, and resident physicians are said to have a silver scalpel in their hands. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Turons's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Turons is ranked 329,264^th in the world and 13^th in Aetheria for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 17.88 on the Bus Surprisal Index.