The Queendom of Yeress is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Yenali Yeshi with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.18 billion Yeressians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yeshin. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Yeressi economy, worth 25.5 trillion yeresis 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 led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 21,649 yeresis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old", sex education has become an intricate maze of stick figures and complex metaphors, teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath, and elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yeress's national animal is the yeressian koi fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Yeress is ranked 190,671^st in the world and 7,432^nd in Osiris for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 125.25 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.