The Empire of Yith is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic, devout population of 788 million Yithians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Yithian economy, worth 21.2 trillion allotments a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 26,947 allotments, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban, the tenet of free speech is held dear, the government is reining in public spending, and the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yith's national animal is the flying polyp, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Yith is ranked 31,414^th in the world and 10^th in Astral Sea for Safest, scoring 108.68 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.