The Kingdom of Yltweg is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 18 million Yltweg are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Yltweg economy, worth 352 billion kalpis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Trout Farming. Average income is 19,567 kalpis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed, citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin, most fires are already out by the time the bucket brigade gets to them, and legitimate job descriptions now include "smiling and waving". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yltweg's national animal is the hare, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yltweg is ranked 279,926^th in the world and 3,628^th in The East Pacific for Rudest Citizens, with 16.49 insults per minute.