The Community of Joe Bobs is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Non Navigator Babbs with a fair hand, and renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 26.515 billion Bobbians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Edge City. The average income tax rate is 93.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Joe Bobsian economy, worth a remarkable 2,196 trillion bobs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 82,836 bobs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Making up random numbers to name new asteroids is the bulk of astronomers' work, the most notorious criminals are given the Consequences of Your Actions Award, the number of eyes rolled per maths lesson is increasing exponentially, and shoppers carry protractors to verify their produce. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Joe Bobs's national animal is the gekko, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Joe Bobs is ranked 11,010^th in the world and 4^th in Global Right Alliance for Largest Populations, with 26.5 billion capita.