The Holy Empire of Jacks Fingernails is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 8 million Lizardians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 41.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Lizzing economy, worth 357 billion fingernails a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 44,687 fingernails, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

On-duty Air Jacks Fingernails flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class, surfing lessons include how to ward off sharks, dubiously qualified East Lebatuckese doctors prescribe ice baths as a treatment for pneumonia, and police reduce their paperwork by refusing to arrest anyone. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Jacks Fingernails's national animal is the Big Lizard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Jacks Fingernails is ranked 102,698^th in the world and 452^nd in Europeia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,234.19 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.