The Democratic Republic of Yuggera is a massive, safe nation, ruled by fish with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.377 billion Yuggerans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Meanjin. The average income tax rate is 81.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Yuggeran economy, worth 93.3 trillion maiwars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 39,247 maiwars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government statisticians explain census inaccuracies by declaring that "Sith happens", Yuggerans struggle to cut steak with a spoon, the comic book series 'Fish and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, and the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yuggera's national animal is the bui, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yuggera is ranked 183,216^th in the world and 5,998^th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -72.14 on the Scary Big Number Scale.