The Second Federal Community of The Ysion is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by The Community Council League with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 16.141 billion Ysion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cassi City. The average income tax rate is 86.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ysionian economy, worth a remarkable 1,430 trillion Ysionian Ducats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 88,621 Ysionian Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Ysionian Embarrassments, every citizen is allowed exactly fifteen minutes of fame, using "inspect element" is grounds for espionage charges, and stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Ysion's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

The Ysion is ranked 19,275^th in the world and 10^th in Ridgefield for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 315.11 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.