The Sub-optimally Aligned Nation of Yriae is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Ferguson Springoff with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 5.301 billion Yrieggites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Querome. The average income tax rate is 80.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Yriaean economy, worth 689 trillion phlegmes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 130,038 phlegmes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward, the government forces Yrieggites to eat their vegetables, and citizens partake in escapades with creatures of the night. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yriae's national animal is the horseshit beetle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Accidentalism.

Yriae is ranked 265,009^th in the world and 3,308^th in The North Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 25,357.57 Standard Monetary Units.