The Free Land of Josephree is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, absence of drug laws, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 352 million Josephreeans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Industry, with Defense and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Law & Order and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Josephreean economy, worth 39.6 trillion metals a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 112,512 metals, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,021,313 per year while the poor average 1,436, a ratio of 710 to 1.

The well-to-do in The North Pacific are never on time for important appointments, cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance, and guns don't kill people — heroes do. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Josephree's national animal is the feral cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Josephree is ranked 208,601^st in the world and 3,809^th in The North Pacific for Most Secular, with 15.62 Atheism Rate.