The Republic of Yarmatia is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 274 million Yarmatians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Healthcare, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. The average income tax rate is 37.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Yarmatian economy, worth 7.06 trillion töms a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 25,779 töms, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are remarkably well involved in the political process, mollycoddled youths run the country, Yarmatia's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Yarmatia's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Yarmatia is ranked 78,945^th in the world and 24^th in Wysteria for Most Beautiful Environments, with 597.36 pounds of wildlife per square mile.