The Recycled Empire of Yes Humans Are Recyclable is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Captain Recycled with an even hand, and notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 2.38 billion Recycled Humans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Recycled metropolis. The average income tax rate is 49.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Yes Humans Are Recyclablean economy, worth 304 trillion Recyclable Water Bottles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 127,853 Recyclable Water Bottles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, tax revenue is often intercepted by international accountants before ever seeing the national treasury, counselors diagnose their clients with motherboard complexes, and the government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yes Humans Are Recyclable's national animal is the Recycled Animal, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Recycled theology.

Yes Humans Are Recyclable is ranked 111,578^th in the world and 29^th in Callista for Largest Soda Pop Sector, scoring 594.77 on the Addison-Fukk Productivity Rating.