The Republic of San Jose Mercury News is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, democratic population of 406 million Supersuburbaniteses enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Great America. The average income tax rate is 6.4%.

The thriving San Jose Mercury Newsian economy, worth 34.1 trillion weather reports a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 83,936 weather reports, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason, hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in San Jose Mercury News's many privately-owned prisons, homophobia is off the menu, and airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted. Crime is well under control. San Jose Mercury News's national animal is the elephant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

San Jose Mercury News is ranked 174,859^th in the world and 15^th in Silicon Valley for Lowest Crime Rates, with 58.89 law-abiding acts per hour.