The Benevolent Church of Jim the Baptist is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Jim McCann Almighty with a fair hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 10.299 billion Jim the Baptistians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jim Town. The average income tax rate is 9.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jim the Baptistian economy, worth a remarkable 3,661 trillion Prayers 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 large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an amazing 355,559 Prayers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians tend to jump ship to whichever party is currently leading in the polls, theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage, EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise, and cheese lovers have a case of the bleus. Crime is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Jim the Baptist's national animal is the Dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Jim the Baptist.

Jim the Baptist is ranked 684^th in the world and 14^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,102.93 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.