The People's Democratic Republic of Yelda is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Chairman Diřgę with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 46.049 billion Yeldans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The medium-sized, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ikat Yeldashæ. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Yeldan economy, worth an astonishing 12,539 trillion New Yeldan Pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 272,303 New Yeldan Pounds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,341,960 per year while the poor average 31,497, a ratio of 42.6 to 1.

The Yeldan Badürian Church has been named as Yelda's national religion, Chairman Diřgę has just been declared ruler of Yelda in an international press conference, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yelda's national animal is the Klollen, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Yeldan Badürian Church.

Yelda is ranked 125,969^th in the world and 4^th in The Pleiades for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,022.78 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.