The Community of San Juan Branch Line is a large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its prohibition of alcohol, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 78 million engines are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Welfare, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 8.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong San Juan Branch Line economy, worth 4.71 trillion Railroad Spikes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 60,355 Railroad Spikes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos, stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, doctors prescribe videos of political debates to patients with insomnia, and faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force. San Juan Branch Line's national animal is the Stallion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

San Juan Branch Line is ranked 175,774^th in the world and 28^th in One Collective Brain Cell for Safest, scoring 56.64 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.