The Legally Named Ye of Ye West is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Ye West with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.051 billion Ye Westians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chi-town. The average income tax rate is 46.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Ye Westian economy, worth 14.2 trillion 808s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 13,522 808s, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Budding hospital branches are leaving arborists stumped, moles make up an incredible part of the upper crust, agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, and an enfeebled opposition party spends most of its time simply trying to stay on the ballot. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ye West's national animal is the bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ye West is ranked 176,279^th in the world and 1,303^rd in the Rejected Realms for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 65 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.