The Federal Alliance of Yokyo is a mammoth, cultured nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.866 billion Yolk hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eda. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Yolk economy, worth a remarkable 1,385 trillion Yolkens 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 176,131 Yolkens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's never a spare chair in the retirement home, human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants, write-in candidate 'Leader Sucks' is perennially popular, and the threat of economic apocalypse brings out the best in people. Crime is totally unknown. Yokyo's national animal is the Robin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yokyo is ranked 245,808^th in the world and 13,801^st in Balder for Largest Black Market, with 202 billion Standard Monetary Units.