The Native Peoples of Yellowstone Valley is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Faith Spotted Eagle with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 32.2 billion Yellowstone Valleyians 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 Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bear Creek. The average income tax rate is 80.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Yellowstone Valleyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,584 trillion Obsidians a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 49,210 Obsidians, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Motorcycle riders are required to wear so much gear they've been nicknamed "Stay Pufts", grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, and every workday begins with group therapy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yellowstone Valley's national animal is the coyote, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Yellowstone Valley is ranked 205,526^th in the world and 2^nd in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for Largest Black Market, with 446 billion Standard Monetary Units.