The People's Republic of Yummy Pecan Pies is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.108 billion Yummy Pecan Piesians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.6%.

The thriving Yummy Pecan Piesian economy, worth 181 trillion Pecans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Soda Sales, Gambling, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 86,291 Pecans, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Interest in globalism never flags, only a minority of the population can actually vote at elections, the use of martial arts is banned, and museums occasionally burn priceless artifacts in order to intimidate foreign curators. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Yummy Pecan Pies's national animal is the Bee.

Yummy Pecan Pies is ranked 281,496^th in the world and 302^nd in Forest for Safest, scoring 6.41 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.