The Serene Republic of Yorklyn is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Ren Forven with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, keen interest in outer space, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.912 billion Yorks are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thorn. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse York economy, worth a remarkable 1,631 trillion Lyrs a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,267 Lyrs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

T-shirts displaying a photo of Ren Forven performing the Full-Monty are selling out, foreign workers are flooding in as Lyrs flood out, Ren Forven is spearheading a new fashion trend of wearing swimming goggles and medieval armour, and if there's something strange in your neighborhood you call Brancaland. Crime is totally unknown. Yorklyn's national animal is the Cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yorklyn is ranked 59,160^th in the world and 83^rd in The Kodiak Republic for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,321.84 on the Gilded Widget Scale.