The Tranquil Imperial Republic of The Youthful Optimists is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Youthful Optimistic Emperor with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 13.305 billion Youthful Optimists are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imperial City of the Youth. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Youthfully Optimistic economy, worth a remarkable 4,217 trillion smiles a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 316,957 smiles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Everyone wants to be on the guest list for diplomatic parties, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Youthful Optimists's national animal is the dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

The Youthful Optimists is ranked 339^th in the world and 2^nd in The Sunny and Optimistic Organization for Safest, scoring 200.96 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.