The Principality of Kyrumi is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 298 million Kyrumians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 57.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Kyrumian economy, worth 5.59 trillion Bathumarks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 18,755 Bathumarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kyrumi's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, employers are finding it hard to screen candidates now that everyone gets A grades in their exams, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, and telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kyrumi's national animal is the Kyrumin Mountain Hound.

Kyrumi is ranked 54,877^th in the world and 2,996^th in Balder for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.