The Republic of Yerrayaz is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its frequent executions, anti-smoking policies, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 16.93 billion Yerrayazians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 87.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Yerrayazian economy, worth a remarkable 2,123 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,453 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Referenda are held for every conceivable government action, windows in Yerrayaz City don't have much of a view, the government is proudly free of crabs, and soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yerrayaz's national animal is the octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Yerrayaz is ranked 11,228^th in the world and 1^st in Delaware for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 87.84 Effective Tax Rate.