The Rising Sun's Land of Yaorozu is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Mikado with an even hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, ban on automobiles, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cheerful population of 29.292 billion Yaorozu-no-tami are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asuka. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Yaorozu economy, worth a remarkable 7,476 trillion yen a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 255,252 yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The government tells its citizens to 'forgive and forget', weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, and whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Yaorozu Embarrassments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yaorozu's national animal is the green pheasant, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Shinto.

Yaorozu is ranked 208,764^th in the world and 10,126^th in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -84.46 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.