The Grand Duchy of Yi-ite is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Gradiff the Wicked with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.558 billion Huggables are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lydia. The average income tax rate is 93.0%.

The all-consuming Huggable economy, worth 915 trillion Hexes 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Trout Farming. 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 164,672 Hexes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government is hungry to spread communism beyond the nation's borders, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences, and cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yi-ite's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Yi-ite is ranked 18,175^th in the world and 768^th in Balder for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 22,808.89 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.