The Republic of United Vilain Yerphy is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 755 million Yerphyians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 54.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient United Vilain Yerphyian economy, worth 33.0 trillion Yerphyian Frans a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,732 Yerphyian Frans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Foreigners are treated with great suspicion, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people', and poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Vilain Yerphy's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

United Vilain Yerphy is ranked 55,350^th in the world and 119^th in United Kingdom for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 561.18 on the Clooney Contribution Index.