The Rising Sun's Land of Yaorozu is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Mikado with an even hand, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, parental licensing program, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 30.957 billion Yaorozu-no-tami are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

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 8,841 trillion Yaorozu golds 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. Average income is an amazing 285,617 Yaorozu golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Paranoid museum guards keep a lookout for any animated displays attempting to escape the premises after dark, bored politicians often entertain themselves with games of Simon during important votes, summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police, and Bigtopian relations have become a minefield. 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 ghost, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Shinto.

Yaorozu is ranked 18^th in the world and 2^nd in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 14,653.82 Pounds Of Wildlife Per Square Mile.