The Democratic States of Yappings is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its daily referendums, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.133 billion Yappingsians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Yappingsian economy, worth 595 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 190,071 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voters are one of the nation's top imports, toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, and mollycoddled youths run the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yappings's national animal is the Chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yappings is ranked 87,802^nd in the world and 1,165^th in The East Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,326.52 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.