The Most Serene Republic of Jeri Ryan is a colossal, socially progressive nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 7.766 billion Jeri Ryanites 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Unimatrix 01. The average income tax rate is 67.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Jeri Ryanite economy, worth 119 trillion nanoprobe hyposprays 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 Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 15,325 nanoprobe hyposprays, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Research grant proposals read like political diatribes, literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on, and the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jeri Ryan's national animal is the borg, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jeri Ryan is ranked 239,104^th in the world and 7^th in Subreality for Highest Poor Incomes, with 14,279.8 Standard Monetary Units.