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The Community of Josivar is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, vat-grown people, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 506 million Josivarans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Viridomia. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Josivaran economy, worth 49.8 trillion sticks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,472 sticks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll, the nation is committed to nuclear rearmament, school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time, and there's more vermin than ever on the metro. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Josivar's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Josivar is ranked 279,270^th in the world and 588^th in Aeternum for Fattest Citizens, with 6.26 Obesity Rate.