The Holy Empire of Jace Ste is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, sprawling nuclear power plants, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 699 million Jace Steans 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tyuvsky. The average income tax rate is 79.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Jace Stean economy, worth 69.2 trillion Lire a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 99,061 Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Untold millions of Lire are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas, sections of the police receive paramilitary training, and Tourism facilities are being turned into Eurasian brown bear habitats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jace Ste's national animal is the Eurasian brown bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jace Ste is ranked 18,530^th in the world and 766^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 95 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.