The Federal Republic of Yantos is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and ubiquitous missile silos. The cynical population of 2.725 billion Yantosians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 42.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Yantosian economy, worth 72.8 trillion sols a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,712 sols, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs, nearsighted shoppers looking for probiotics end up purchasing a lot of prophylactics, angst-filled teenagers are rushing off to buy government bonds for some odd reason, and the nation's youth is held blameless for all crimes. Crime is well under control, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yantos's national animal is the lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Yantos is ranked 136,858^th in the world and 2,121^st in the Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,053.56 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.