The People's Republic of Jokaria is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 355 million Jokarians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Avalon. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Jokarian economy, worth 23.0 trillion Jokariertis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Tourism. Average income is 64,848 Jokariertis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords, the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, and the Forestry Department has decided you really can't fight fire with fire. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jokaria's national animal is the Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jokaria is ranked 283,416^th in the world and 535^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Populations, with 355 million capita.