The People's Republic of Yeonguo is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 610 million Yeonguoans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Píngděng. The average income tax rate is 79.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Yeonguoan economy, worth 87.2 trillion Rens 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 142,990 Rens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically, Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in Yeonguo, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, and the military is plagued with unethical researchers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yeonguo's national animal is the Senrima, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Yeonguo is ranked 272,660^th in the world and 6,066^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 56 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.