The Democratic Republic of Yert Clan is a large, safe nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 100 million Yertians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Yert Clanian economy, worth 2.49 trillion Tams a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. Average income is 24,908 Tams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, the Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea, and industrial chicken farmers hear no evil see no evil and cluck no evil. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yert Clan's national animal is the water buffalo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yert Clan is ranked 319,092^nd in the world and 1,556^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Black Market, with 3.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.