The Republic of Yoshisha is a huge, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and compulsory military service. The hard-working, devout population of 903 million Yoshishans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Norfolk. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.1%.

The thriving Yoshishan economy, worth 73.8 trillion Pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 81,673 Pounds, with the richest citizens earning 7.5 times as much as the poorest.

Almost half of the child population live rough on the streets, Yoshishan doors require a Ph.D. to open, it's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt, and conversion therapy coupons are a popular present for coming of age ceremonies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yoshisha's national animal is the Sea Otter, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Yoshisha is ranked 46,919^th in the world and 27^th in The Kodiak Republic for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 21,291.29 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.