The Empire of Kuat Drive Yards is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 23.984 billion Kuat Drive Yardsians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Law & Order, although Industry and Defense are also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.2%.

The thriving Kuat Drive Yardsian economy, worth 992 trillion Imperial Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 41,388 Imperial Credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 119,866 per year while the poor average 11,325, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Crime is moderate. Kuat Drive Yards's national animal is the Dewback, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kuat Drive Yards is ranked 245,342^nd in the world and 72^nd in Spear Danes for Lowest Crime Rates, with 53.33 law-abiding acts per hour.