The State of Yaos is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 37.873 billion Yaosians 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 enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Yaosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,967 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 51,959 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government has legalised small-scale capitalism, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, Yaos has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Yaos in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yaos's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Yaos is ranked 252,647^th in the world and 1^st in Republic of Tajikistan for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.06 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.