The Federation of Jauharius is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Dr Parnell Plymmyswoode MP with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The cynical population of 3.946 billion Jauharians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Whichford. The average income tax rate is 31.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Jauhariusian economy, worth 162 trillion Jauhar Pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,299 Jauhar Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies, the government struggles to keep up with the endless list of petrol disasters, the secret service is working overtime to find anyone publishing unauthorized material about Dr Parnell Plymmyswoode MP, and children grow up long before the paperwork for their lemonade stands can be sorted out. Crime is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jauharius's national animal is the Rattlesnake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Horizonisme.

Jauharius is ranked 170,892^nd in the world and 11^th in Mandalanusa for Lowest Crime Rates, with 59.22 law-abiding acts per hour.