The Dominion of Tyumak is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Khraru Nan with a fair hand, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.127 billion Tyums are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zkumei. The average income tax rate is 88.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tyum economy, worth 401 trillion djeris a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 128,444 djeris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A video of Khraru Nan wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, the dance skills of Khraru Nan are said to be almost as subversive as their politics, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, and burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony. Crime is totally unknown. Tyumak's national animal is the vegavis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tyumak is ranked 3,870^th in the world and 99^th in Europe for Nicest Citizens, with 52.52 average smiles per day.