The Fief of Yves is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Lennart Raybrandt with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 14.332 billion Yvians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yves. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Yvian economy, worth 851 trillion livres a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,426 livres, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied eagle, the government invades its allies more than its enemies, and lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yves's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholism.

Yves is ranked 283,757^th in the world and 29^th in Lennart for Most Cultured, scoring 61 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.