The People's Republic of Jiniyastan is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 328 million Jiniyastanians 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, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Jiniyastanian economy, worth 21.6 trillion Jins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,984 Jins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, movies depict muscle-bound women kicking down a titanium door to carry hysterical men to safety, owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation, and it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Jiniyastan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jiniyastan's national animal is the Goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Jiniyastan is ranked 51,812^th in the world and 606^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 143.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.