The People's Republic of JUCHO is a tiny, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 18 million JUCHONIANS are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak JUCHONIAN economy, worth 511 billion WON 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is 28,402 WON, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Comatose jurors are the defense's favorite, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, and the nation solves other countries' human rights problems with a generous dose of violence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. JUCHO's national animal is the Chollima, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

JUCHO is ranked 260,471^st in the world and 2,072^nd in the West Pacific for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -8 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.