The Sultanate of Tarmus is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Bayezid IV with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.77 billion Tarmusians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Administration, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oderna. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.6%.

The powerhouse Tarmusian economy, worth 261 trillion Akaches a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 94,364 Akaches, with the richest citizens earning 8.7 times as much as the poorest.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, charity fundraisers often resemble minstrel shows, and getting a blood transfusion from a Tarmusian entitles a foreigner to citizenship. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Tarmus's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Taszlam.

Tarmus is ranked 197,209^th in the world and 8,546^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 56.94 law-abiding acts per hour.