The People's Republic of Yorkshire and Northumbria is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 13.343 billion Yorkshire and Northumbrians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 87.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Yorkshire and Northumbrian economy, worth a remarkable 1,335 trillion Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 100,053 Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gossip magazines have pictures of Leader sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, they say that Yorkshire and Northumbrians made a dessert and called it peace, incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, and a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yorkshire and Northumbria's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yorkshire and Northumbria is ranked 7,566^th in the world and 410^th in Balder for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 12,696.49 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.