The Queendom of Yor 18 is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 3.815 billion Yor 18ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 39.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Yor 18ian economy, worth 163 trillion Dalcs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,928 Dalcs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be, statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty, children dream of becoming physicians and physicists, and the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yor 18's national animal is the Hamster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yor 18 is ranked 121,985^th in the world and 6,090^th in Balder for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 937.23 on the Gilded Widget Scale.