The People's Republic of The Holy Jand is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chancellor Ogleforth with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.075 billion Jand 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skellow. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,145 trillion salks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 161,844 salks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, tourists call Jandian beach towns "the fine coastline", youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights, and government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries. Crime is totally unknown. The Holy Jand's national animal is the black elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Holy Jand is ranked 3,884^th in the world and 2^nd in Atlantis for Safest, scoring 134.87 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.