The State of Yorby is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The humorless population of 37.542 billion Yorbians 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 76.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Yorbyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,557 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. 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 41,493 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award, the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall, and royalist is the most offensive slur in the Yorbyian language. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yorby's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yorby is ranked 229,703^rd in the world and 627^th in United States of America for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -4.2 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.