The Republic of Jatarax is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its smutty television, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.661 billion Jataraxians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jataraxian economy, worth 462 trillion rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 126,376 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, and seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jatarax's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jatarax is ranked 176,930^th in the world and 609^th in Cainitium for Highest Food Quality, scoring 13.48 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.