The Nomadic Peoples of The High Lonesome Sound of Skip James is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Nehemiah James with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.192 billion Jamesians 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 large, liberal, 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 Bentonia. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient High Lonesome Sound of Skip Jamesian economy, worth a remarkable 2,334 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 208,551 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nehemiah James steals from the rich and gives to the needy, weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them, Thomas the Spank Engine is the most popular and controversial children's show in the nation, and recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed. Crime is totally unknown. The High Lonesome Sound of Skip James's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The High Lonesome Sound of Skip James is ranked 286,984^th in the world and 8^th in The Delta for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -16.67 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.