The Subsidized Union of Jermi is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by J with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, ubiquitous missile silos, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.464 billion Jermen are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jeinburg. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jermian economy, worth a remarkable 1,444 trillion Mincoes a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 264,324 Mincoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box, the hit new medical TV show "Home" prominently features the brand of painkiller the lead doctor is addicted to, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, and this year's hottest fashion trend is the Lese Majeste collection. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Jermi's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lunaism.

Jermi is ranked 24,119^th in the world and 8^th in Palatine for Most Patriotic, with 43.19 flags saluted per person per day.