The Most Serene Queendom of Yerba is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Druk Gyalmo Tshering with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 9.854 billion Yrbijans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Laya. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Yrbijan economy, worth a remarkable 1,045 trillion Yerban Ngultrums a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, extremely specialized black market in Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 106,144 Yerban Ngultrums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, the information technology industry has been boxed into a corner, scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, and doctors are learning that red tape makes ineffective bandages. Crime is totally unknown. Yerba's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Buddhism - Drukpa Kagyu.

Yerba is ranked 5,400^th in the world and 40^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 13,187.46 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.