The Federal Republic of Yerdland is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, disturbing lack of elderly people, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.844 billion Yerdishes are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Great and Grand Yerdland City. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The powerhouse Yerdlandian economy, worth 681 trillion Yords 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 dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 116,639 Yords, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Astronomers are flocking to Yerdland to take advantage of its clear night skies, the arms manufacturing industry has been boxed into a corner, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers, and Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yerdland's national animal is the Bulldog-Shi-Tzu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yerdism.

Yerdland is ranked 85,540^th in the world and 63^rd in The Wellspring for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 112.07 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.