The Commonwealth of Kia Japaharcole is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 12.269 billion Kia Japaharcoleans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 62.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Kia Japaharcolean economy, worth 741 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,411 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', no animal is considered endangered if there's another that looks kind of like it, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Kia Japaharcole in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kia Japaharcole's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kia Japaharcole is ranked 248,850^th in the world and 24^th in The Alpha Legion for Nicest Citizens, with 1.23 average smiles per day.