The Illuminated Autocracy of Yestleck is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by High Lord Armanis with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, parental licensing program, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 12.964 billion Yestleckans 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, moralistic, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Malleonea. The average income tax rate is 92.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Yestleckan economy, worth a remarkable 4,159 trillion Aurums a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 320,873 Aurums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, high-tech infantry rifles automatically reload when the soldier shoots outside the screen of their helmet HUD, sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, and the army lives rent-free in foreigners' heads and houses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yestleck's national animal is the manul, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Yestleck is ranked 315^th in the world and 1^st in Wintreath for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 136,240.63 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.