The United Socialist States of Ythen is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.953 billion Ythenians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ythenian economy, worth a remarkable 2,537 trillion Estuses a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 110,560 Estuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Bombs make good ploughs, the government is proudly free of crabs, retirement is back in business, and people at rock bottom are handed a shovel and a cold one. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ythen's national animal is the kookaburra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Islam.

Ythen is ranked 56,517^th in the world and 1^st in Arcesia for Most Developed, scoring 75.83 on the Human Development Index.