The Republic of James Clerk Maxwell is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 342 million James Clerk Maxwellians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Environment isn't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.1%.

The James Clerk Maxwellian economy, worth 17.2 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,416 deniers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 159,852 per year while the poor average 12,123, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

The new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, and citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. James Clerk Maxwell's national animal is the porpoise, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

James Clerk Maxwell is ranked 264,115^th in the world and 78^th in Collections for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring zero on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.