The Protectorate of Yokotamachi is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 373 million Yokotamachians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Defense, with Welfare, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Yokotamachian economy, worth 9.38 trillion Yokotamachian Mons 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Tourism, and Information Technology. 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 25,144 Yokotamachian Mons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service, Yokotamachians caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", and exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yokotamachi's national animal is the Blue Whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Yokotamachi is ranked 59,292^nd in the world and 11^th in Anime for Safest, scoring 99.11 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.