The Dominion of Yousaitoshi is a mid-sized, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 68 million Yousaitoshians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The imploded Yousaitoshian economy, worth 437 billion labour vouchers 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 Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 6,429 labour vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments, citizens who refuse to vote are guillotined, the government is spending billions of labour vouchers on a fancy space probe to find a planet that may not even exist, and rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yousaitoshi's national animal is the phasmid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yousaitoshi is ranked 297,493^rd in the world and 68^th in Rosaria for Highest Poor Incomes, with 6,381.68 Standard Monetary Units.