The Armed Republic of Yueyu is a mid-sized, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 78 million Yueyuans enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.5%.

The all-consuming Yueyuan economy, worth 6.67 trillion Doubloons a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 85,535 Doubloons, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 543,041 per year while the poor average 5,585, a ratio of 97.2 to 1.

The government denies any involvement in the release of the Hot Load computer virus, it is illegal for a parent to tell a child to stop eating their boogers, playing an online nation simulation game legally obliges you to buy the creator's latest novel, and citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Yueyu's national animal is the Skua, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Yueyu is ranked 80,946^th in the world and 680^th in the West Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 85,535.15 Standard Monetary Units.