The Republic of Joutte is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, avowedly heterosexual populace, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.747 billion Joutteans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Jouttean economy, worth 252 trillion blossoms a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 144,665 blossoms, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 862,578 per year while the poor average 11,083, a ratio of 77.8 to 1.

Health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water, self-driving cars are unpopular due to suspicion that they murder their passengers, visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories, and Joutte's free colleges struggle to maintain standards in the face of overwhelming demand. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Joutte's national animal is the goblin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Joutte is ranked 3,669^th in the world and 7^th in Carcassonne for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 140,325.66 Standard Monetary Units.