The District of James Snow is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 39.792 billion James Snowians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 82.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant James Snowian economy, worth 158 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 3,987 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School uniforms are compulsory, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure, and all forms of advertising are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. James Snow's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

James Snow is ranked 236,140^th in the world and 1^st in Woodsmen for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.02 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.