The Republic of Yuanlin is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, ubiquitous missile silos, and restrictive gun laws. The quiet, industrious population of 540 million Yuanlinians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaohsiung. The average income tax rate is 55.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Yuanlinian economy, worth 50.6 trillion New Yuanlin Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is 93,755 New Yuanlin Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams, and pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yuanlin's national animal is the Formosan Black Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Yuanlin is ranked 63,764^th in the world and 6^th in Perdita for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,862.3 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.