The State of Yebadiah is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 34.65 billion Yebadiahians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 67.6%.

The Yebadiahian economy, worth a remarkable 1,321 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 38,145 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

There's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, all tariffs have been abolished, Yebadiah has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Yebadiah in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yebadiah's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yebadiah is ranked 182,415^th in the world and 1^st in Malaya for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 51.09 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.