The United Socialist States of Yvecla is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 298 million Yveclans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Yveclan economy, worth 10.5 trillion kroons a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 35,317 kroons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Young men in tiny bikinis draw neither comment nor stares on the morning commute, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, punk rockers smash it up and then clean it up, and Jack Russells have proven to be terrible spies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yvecla's national animal is the Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.

Yvecla is ranked 283,494^th in the world and 1,387^th in Europe for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -6.78 on the Hickory Productivity Index.