The Dark Star of YristetzE is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Overseer Kalanza with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 1.183 billion Yristetzans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Чельньов. The average income tax rate is 70.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Yristetzan economy, worth 14.4 trillion wealth units a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 12,138 wealth units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, Overseer Kalanza's perky ego is the talk of the town, the government has certified several glow-in-the-dark athletes as drug free, and graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. YristetzE's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

YristetzE is ranked 257,565^th in the world and 433^rd in Starlight for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 795.04 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.