The Asian Empire of Yrathy is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Francis II with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 24.566 billion Yrathyans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yrathya. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Yrathy economy, worth 273 trillion Talents 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, quite specialized black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. 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 11,132 Talents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surveillance cameras are banned, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, citizens have never heard foreign radio, and computers are used primarily for word processing and solitaire. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yrathy's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is nihilism.

Yrathy is ranked 8,952^nd in the world and 4^th in Philippines for Largest Populations, with 24.6 billion capita.