The State of Joseph Jacobs is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its complete lack of public education and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 27.161 billion Joseph Jacobsians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Law & Order, with Industry and Defense also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.8%.

The powerhouse Joseph Jacobsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,197 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 44,075 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 151,212 per year while the poor average 9,429, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

All major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, voting is voluntary, military spending recently hit a new high, and Joseph Jacobs has designated Westminster as its capital city. Crime is a problem. Joseph Jacobs's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Joseph Jacobs is ranked 138,926^th in the world and 1^st in Castries for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,313 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.