The Most Serene Republic of Yelowel is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its frequent executions, rampant corporate plagiarism, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.125 billion Yelowelians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, with Law & Order and Environment not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roxby Downs. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Yelowelian economy, worth 670 trillion marks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 214,452 marks, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,961,592 per year while the poor average 2,538, a ratio of 772 to 1.

Hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment, it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies, young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, and fur coats have become the latest fashion trend. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Yelowel's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Yelowel is ranked 9,422^nd in the world and 20^th in Panama Papers for Highest Average Incomes, with 214,452.48 Standard Monetary Units.