The Protectorate of Yesterday is a titanic, efficient nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, ritual sacrifices, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.978 billion Yesterdayians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Yesterdayian economy, worth a remarkable 3,378 trillion Guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. 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 amazing 211,434 Guilders, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 895,252 per year while the poor average 32,258, a ratio of 27.8 to 1.

Yesterdayians have replaced bears in a popular idiom, the government prevents violence by committing genocide, citizens who don't meet government health standards are whisked away never to be seen again, and police nightsticks see use all day long. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Yesterday's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Yesterday is ranked 328,413^th in the world and 1^st in Indie for Safest, scoring 3.92 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.