The Federal Alliance of Yokyo is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its national health service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.859 billion Yolk hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eda. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Yolk economy, worth a remarkable 1,378 trillion Yolkens 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 175,362 Yolkens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In a baffling press conference Leader proudly dismantled a broken door, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, there's never a spare chair in the retirement home, and human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants. Crime is totally unknown. Yokyo's national animal is the Robin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yokyo is ranked 1,456^th in the world and 63^rd in Balder for Nicest Citizens, with 79.21 average smiles per day.