The Holy Empire of YzY is a mid-sized, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 87 million YzYians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.0%.

The very strong YzYian economy, worth 5.33 trillion Papers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is 61,297 Papers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 216,402 per year while the poor average 12,554, a ratio of 17.2 to 1.

The secret service is working overtime to find anyone publishing unauthorized material about Leader, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, punitive tariffs protect local industry, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. YzY's national animal is the Goat.

YzY is ranked 314,208^th in the world and 78^th in Cole World for Largest Black Market, with 6.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.