The Rising Sun's Land of Yaorozu is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Mikado with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and national health service. The compassionate, cheerful population of 33.422 billion Yaorozu-no-tami are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asuka. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Yaorozu economy, worth an astonishing 10,964 trillion Yaorozu yen 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 Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 328,072 Yaorozu yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, the parliament building has installed a revolving door, kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them, and citizens often glare angrily at jet contrails. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yaorozu's national animal is the green pheasant, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Shinto.

Yaorozu is ranked 1,048^th in the world and 57^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 933.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.