The Holy Empire of Yappenese is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 538 million Yappeneseans 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 64.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Yappenesean economy, worth 14.3 trillion Minecoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 26,579 Minecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation has declared its intention to "stretch out", pregnant women make easy targets, God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone, and the teaching of evolution has been banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yappenese's national animal is the Jake from subway surfers, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Yappenese is ranked 136,894^th in the world and 341^st in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 724.11 on the Gilded Widget Scale.