The People's Republic of Jokaria is a very large, socially progressive nation, notable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 312 million Jokarians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Avalon. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Jokarian economy, worth 21.0 trillion Jokariertis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 67,356 Jokariertis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, the government is plagued with uncertainty, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", and scientists take credit every time it rains in The Communist Bloc. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jokaria's national animal is the Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jokaria is ranked 46,480^th in the world and 375^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.