The Kingdom of Yardies is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Andy Ganteks with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.602 billion Yardies 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Liberty City. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Yard economy, worth 508 trillion Mobs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 195,492 Mobs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Tourists are flocking to the newly-built MeteorLand family resort, mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of Lions and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry, a third of Yardies are e-certified CEOs, and the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yardies's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Monke.

Yardies is ranked 10,892^nd in the world and 92^nd in the West Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 9,362.83 on the Gilded Widget Scale.