The Kingdom of Yardies is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Andy Ganteks with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.419 billion Yardies 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Liberty City. The average income tax rate is 77.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Yard economy, worth a remarkable 1,917 trillion Mobs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 258,456 Mobs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, the government is a law unto itself, and billions of Mobs are spent to take high-quality photos of the Lion Nebula. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yardies's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Monke.

Yardies is ranked 268,862^nd in the world and 2,148^th in the West Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -6.32 on the Clooney Contribution Index.