The Dictatorship of Yniv is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, digital currency, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 851 million Yanivians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yniv City. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Yanivian economy, worth 83.6 trillion Koupons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is 98,280 Koupons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, tourists on boat cruises can't figure out why they smell so fishy afterward, businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections, and residents of houses built on a foundation of wishful thinking are prone to an odd sinking feeling. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yniv's national animal is the Mango Nibbler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yniv is ranked 76,044^th in the world and 3^rd in Urth for Most Developed, scoring 68.73 on the Human Development Index.