The Republic of Yarlsberg is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 16.284 billion Yarlsbergians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rind. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Yarlsbergian economy, worth a remarkable 1,102 trillion Wedges a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,684 Wedges, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, the people elect the Supreme Court justices directly, the government-sponsored autobiography 'A Leader For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of Leader's supporters, and it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yarlsberg's national animal is the Cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Yarlsberg is ranked 34,587^th in the world and 297^th in 10000 Islands for Lowest Crime Rates, with 80.17 law-abiding acts per hour.