The Republic of Saint Jack Smith is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jack with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion and suspicion of poets. The democratic population of 5.171 billion Saint Jack Smithians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 37.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Saint Jack Smithian economy, worth 168 trillion dollas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Gambling, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,520 dollas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The government is phasing in welfare programmes to tackle poverty, sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside, bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms, and a new Brasilistani government has become a daily report on the main evening news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Jack Smith's national animal is the Beagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Free Will.

Saint Jack Smith is ranked 263,621^st in the world and 220^th in United Kingdom for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.78 kickbacks per hour.