The Republic of Jiren is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, devout population of 8.746 billion Jirenians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 46.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Jirenian economy, worth 654 trillion zenis 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, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. 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 74,789 zenis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Jiren's national animal is the fighter, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Jiren is ranked 89,610^th in the world and 308^th in Remembrance for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,057.32 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.