The People's Republic of Jokaria is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 324 million Jokarians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Avalon. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Jokarian economy, worth 22.0 trillion Jokariertis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Tourism. Average income is 67,895 Jokariertis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most ambassadors from Jokaria retire only a few years after being appointed, noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers, and stone wrist watches that weigh 20lb are the latest trend. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jokaria's national animal is the Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jokaria is ranked 156,642^nd in the world and 115^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 388.26 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.