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The Undiscovered tribe of Joyfullness is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the nature god with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.325 billion Joyfullnessians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Law & Order, although Defense, Administration, and Spirituality are also considered important, while Healthcare and Public Transport are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Treetop Village. The average income tax rate is 53.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Joyfullnessian economy, worth 60.0 trillion leaves 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Cheese Exports. 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 45,291 leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, the School of Hard Knocks is receiving record application numbers., children playing with walkie-talkies are told to 'get a job', and business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Joyfullness's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Joyfullness is ranked 137,712^th in the world and 15^th in The waters for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 486.21 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.