The Democratic Republic of YSG Hermitcraft is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 505 million Hermits are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Starlight City. The average income tax rate is 72.9%.

The strong Hermitian economy, worth 37.7 trillion Starlium coins a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,611 Starlium coins, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

It is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away", the WhoTube comments section has gone strangely quiet, returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site, and new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. YSG Hermitcraft's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

YSG Hermitcraft is ranked 18,989^th in the world and 604^th in The East Pacific for Highest Food Quality, scoring 116.09 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.