The Commune of Sjaakland is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Cornelis Bredevoort with an iron fist, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, frequent executions, and daily referendums. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 1.874 billion Sjaaklanders are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The minute, corrupt government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jakobstad. The average income tax rate is 7.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Sjaaklandish economy, worth 90.9 trillion sovereigns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 48,496 sovereigns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Brown Sugar 101 is a popular course at community colleges, the newly revamped army is so eager for action that it has trouble keeping the peace, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, and the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Sjaakland's national animal is the minnow, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sjaakland is ranked 207,175^th in the world and 1^st in Sjaakcontinent for Safest, scoring 36.16 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.