The Democratic Republic of YarraQistan is a very large, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 424 million YarraQistanians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Am-YarraQgrad City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.5%.

The frighteningly efficient YarraQistanian economy, worth 50.9 trillion Sandpaper-coated New YarraQ Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 120,073 Sandpaper-coated New YarraQ Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,062,554 per year while the poor average 1,911, a ratio of 555 to 1.

A petition to improve YarraQistanian literacy is mostly signed with cross-marks, nations that kill a YarraQistanian can expect a strongly worded letter, one is likelier to die from puns than scurvy, and APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. YarraQistan's national animal is the Glow-in-the-dark Feral Cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

YarraQistan is ranked 150,453^rd in the world and 2,418^th in The North Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 386.15 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.