The Managed Democracy of Japerlasa is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by The Kurultai with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, vat-grown people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 11.09 billion Japerlasans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Khiva. The average income tax rate is 68.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Japerlasan economy, worth a remarkable 4,031 trillion grams of moth scales 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Tourism. 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 an amazing 363,503 grams of moth scales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, newspaper stories fill several pages with colorful adjectives, self-sufficiency is built on seizing foreign assets, and every child sleeps with a gun to protect themselves from the monster under the bed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Japerlasa's national animal is the Death's-head hawkmoth, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Japerlasa is ranked 49,125^th in the world and 144^th in Forest for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 68.33 Effective Tax Rate.