The Republic of Yyx99 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.499 billion Yyx99ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Yyx99ian economy, worth 969 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 149,214 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Schoolchildren are divided over Leader's "Why Tigers are Cooler than Lions" speech, being nicknamed "Orange Face" has done Leader's credibility no favours, sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park, and engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yyx99's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yyx99 is ranked 5,034^th in the world and 17^th in YYX for Most Armed, with 12.68 weapons per person.