The Federation of Yakena is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.806 billion Yakenans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.1%.

The very strong Yakenan economy, worth 180 trillion Yakenian Pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Soda Sales. Average income is 47,402 Yakenian Pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 140,321 per year while the poor average 12,577, a ratio of 11.2 to 1.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry and citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Yakena's national animal is the penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Yakena is ranked 181,392^nd in the world and 8,021^st in Balder for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.