The Principality of Saint-Jean-Jacques-sur-Mer is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Prince Pierre-Alexandre 1er de SJJsM with an iron fist, and renowned for its fear of technology, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.159 billion Jean-Jacquois are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint-Jean-Jacques-sur-Mer. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.4%.

The frighteningly efficient jean-jacquois economy, worth 328 trillion Franc jean-jacquois a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 152,178 Franc jean-jacquois, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,092,353 per year while the poor average 6,864, a ratio of 159 to 1.

Labour strikes are routinely squashed by police, birth announcements often also serve as death announcements, charities reserve the right to not help those who go against religious teachings, and pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches. Crime is a major problem. Saint-Jean-Jacques-sur-Mer's national animal is the tapir, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Saint-Jean-Jacques-sur-Mer is ranked 37,705^th in the world and 3^rd in Saint Jean Jacques for Most Cultured, scoring 76 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.