The Grand Duchy of The Grand Duchy of Yurstonstan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Duke Śërmáten with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, pith helmet sales, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 17.741 billion Yurstonians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bioyino. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Yurstonian economy, worth a remarkable 4,195 trillion Yurst Resders 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 236,510 Yurst Resders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Research grant proposals read like political diatribes, nephews and nieces of the monarch resort to begging from relatives in palace halls, the military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles', and tourists visiting the nation are harangued for being capitalist pig-dogs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Grand Duchy of Yurstonstan's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Grand Duchy of Yurstonstan is ranked 9,057^th in the world and 217^th in the Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 428.3 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.