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The Hale of Jasper Junimos is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, daily referendums, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, devout population of 7.667 billion Jasper Junimosians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 42.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Jasper Junimosian economy, worth 607 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 79,193 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The studies of art and philosophy are banned, builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, and patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jasper Junimos's national animal is the elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jasper Junimos is ranked 100,149^th in the world and 2^nd in Fragments for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.