The Lonely Desperation of Joads Farm is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 38.313 billion Joads Farmians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Joads Farmian economy, worth a remarkable 1,552 trillion hayseeds a year, is highly specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,525 hayseeds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children, and the nation's armed forces are recruiting thousands to help colonise Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Joads Farm's national animal is the cow.

Joads Farm is ranked 1,823^rd in the world and 30^th in NationStates for Largest Populations, with 38.3 billion capita.