The Principality of Youston is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, prohibition of alcohol, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working population of 1.483 billion Youstonians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.6%.

The strong Youstonian economy, worth 84.5 trillion Fultruns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 56,947 Fultruns, with the richest citizens earning 6.3 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot, the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts, and loading sixteen tons of laundry gets you another year older and deeper in debt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Youston's national animal is the Bear Polley.

Youston is ranked 262,306^th in the world and 9,690^th in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -8.33 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.