The Colony of Yellowstone River is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, daily referendums, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 27.293 billion Yellowstone Riverians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Social Policy, and Education. The average income tax rate is 64.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Yellowstone Riverian economy, worth 519 trillion river-rocks a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 19,018 river-rocks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system, the government pours millions of river-rocks into rehabilitation programs annually, Rainbow Trout is one of the most popular forenames in Yellowstone River, and the nationalized auto industry is adept at making durable little cars nobody wants to drive. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yellowstone River's national animal is the Rainbow Trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Nativist Animism.

Yellowstone River is ranked 12,481^st in the world and 2^nd in The Lexicon for Most Pacifist, with 126.3 cheeks turned per day.