The Happy Community of -Joyland- is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Premier Joyberry with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.486 billion Joylandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Palma. The average income tax rate is 67.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped -Joyland-ian economy, worth 362 trillion Tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Average income is 42,686 Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School uniforms are compulsory, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, and Bambi has been banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Joyland-'s national animal is the Genet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Happiness.

-Joyland- is ranked 186,227^th in the world and 16^th in Mediterranean for Most Armed, with 0.28 weapons per person.