The Renegade Colony of Southern Yermaney is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by John Maxson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 28.223 billion South Yermans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Industry, and Public Transport are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lost Hills. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient South Yerman economy, worth a remarkable 3,284 trillion bent bottle caps a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 116,378 bent bottle caps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The government loves seeing the little people fight, alcoholism is the newest import from Dàguó, the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines, and prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries. Crime is totally unknown. Southern Yermaney's national animal is the deathclaw, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is post-theism.

Southern Yermaney is ranked 128,469^th in the world and 30^th in Deutschland for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.88 law-abiding acts per hour.