The SWAN Knight and TSP Cygnet of Jihadi Defender is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Local Defender with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.578 billion Defenders 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Halal City. The average income tax rate is 53.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Defender economy, worth 130 trillion Halal Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,596 Halal Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Defenders believe a soft answer turneth away wrath but punitive punishment is much more fun, tie-dye has been outlawed for being 'too occult', credit scores fluctuate wildly with every change of government, and the Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jihadi Defender's national animal is the Sheep, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Islam.

Jihadi Defender is ranked 188,051^st in the world and 1^st in Poltientian Scotland for Largest Populations, with 2.58 billion capita.