The Rising Sun's Land of Yaorozu is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Mikado with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, national health service, and aversion to nipples. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 33.45 billion Yaorozu-no-tami are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

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 an astonishing 10,997 trillion Yaorozu 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 significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 328,774 Yaorozu yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, nations that kill a Yaorozu-no-tami can expect a strongly worded letter, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, and politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional. 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 123^rd in the world and 6^th in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 151.19 flags saluted per person per day.