The Republic of Yarkovsky District is a huge, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 613 million Yarkovsky Districtians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 56.2%.

The thriving Yarkovsky Districtian economy, worth 51.4 trillion Ducats a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 83,868 Ducats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Disadvantaged youths often commit felonies to enhance their educational prospects, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, the nation is infamous for its mass graves of discarded robots, and most farmers are indentured to agrochemical conglomerates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yarkovsky District's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yarkovsky District is ranked 78,845^th in the world and 539^th in Novaya Zemlya for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 56.24 Effective Tax Rate.