The Federal Republic of Jarlborg is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Jakob Brannvall with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 6.179 billion Jarlborgians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rikssjärna. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Jarlborgian economy, worth 613 trillion Rikskronas a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 99,294 Rikskronas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Newspapers are celebrating Jakob Brannvall saving over a million cats from trees, eating kids as food has been enshrined in law, thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks, and traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jarlborg's national animal is the Polar bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jarlborg is ranked 311,681^st in the world and 1,596^th in the Plains of Perdition for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 9,631.54 Standard Monetary Units.