The Republic of BIGJOHN is a large, safe nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 140 million MATHEUSES are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 48.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish BIGJOHNian economy, worth 3.87 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is 27,668 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, there's a bright dawn ahead for BIGJOHN, orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children, and ghost regiments exist only on paper. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BIGJOHN's national animal is the donkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

BIGJOHN is ranked 217,139^th in the world and 110^th in Benigtopia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 256.29 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.