The Illuminating Miscreants of Time in Joy is a mammoth, cultured nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 6.041 billion Time in Joyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 48.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Time in Joyian economy, worth 117 trillion deniers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 19,455 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason, flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor, years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, and a major religion has been named as Time in Joy's national religion. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Time in Joy's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Time in Joy is ranked 152,959^th in the world and 1^st in Restoration Yard for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 929.34 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.