The Mechoocracy of Juliannistan is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 4.178 billion Juliannistanians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Big Buchenau. The average income tax rate is 81.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Juliannistanian economy, worth 375 trillion Sunfistans a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,975 Sunfistans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches, high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate, pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security, and the constant playing of Merry Birthday on Juliannistanian radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Juliannistan's national animal is the Sunfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Christianity.

Juliannistan is ranked 57,374^th in the world and 470^th in the West Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 24.52 flags saluted per person per day.