The Grand Rebuplic of Yerts is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 798 million Yertsis are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manakvarish. The average income tax rate is 54.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Yertsian economy, worth 42.3 trillion Arpos a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,066 Arpos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises, the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources, and citizens ask "how many crooks could a nunchuck hook if a nun had nunchucks too?". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yerts's national animal is the Chutu Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yerts is ranked 214,787^th in the world and 50^th in Hive for Largest Populations, with 798 million capita.