The United Municipalities of The Jerichowan Country is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King of the Jerichowans Karl II with an even hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 10.656 billion Jerichowans 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 Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bürgerich. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Jerichowan economy, worth a remarkable 2,268 trillion Candy Cane Gold Bars 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 212,866 Candy Cane Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, bicyclists are banned from major roads, if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise, and dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Jerichowan Country's national animal is the crane, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

The Jerichowan Country is ranked 2,054^th in the world and 95^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 143.65 law-abiding acts per hour.