The Republic of Yyx8 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its ritual sacrifices, disturbing lack of elderly people, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.723 billion Yyx8ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Yyx8ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,234 trillion rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 183,606 rubles, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos, and nano-cows are the current fad sweeping the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yyx8's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yyx8 is ranked 19,116^th in the world and 15^th in YYX for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,332.37 on the Gilded Widget Scale.