The State of Jarvis Anderson is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 21.947 billion Jarvis Andersonians 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. The average income tax rate is 61.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Jarvis Andersonian economy, worth 629 trillion betales 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Pizza Delivery, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. 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 28,699 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and Jarvis Anderson has designated Westminster as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jarvis Anderson's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jarvis Anderson is ranked 123,764^th in the world and 1^st in Jarvis for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.33 law-abiding acts per hour.