The Sub-optimally Aligned Nation of Yriae is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Ferguson Springoff with an even hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 5.379 billion Yrieggites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Querome. The average income tax rate is 80.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Yriaean economy, worth 701 trillion phlegmes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 130,406 phlegmes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The highest sporting award is the Grail of Tears, art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat, chess players with pacemakers and cochlear implants are treated with suspicion, and entomologists flock to Querome for its remarkable gadfly population. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yriae's national animal is the horseshit beetle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Accidentalism.

Yriae is ranked 12,126^th in the world and 448^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 89.65 on the Human Development Index.