The Colony of Jugular Vein is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its fear of technology, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 3.841 billion Jugular Veinians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 63.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Jugular Veinian economy, worth 362 trillion rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 94,267 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", foreign ambassadors are accused of stealing Jugular Veinian jobs, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, and the national colors help to make everyone look slimmer. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jugular Vein's national animal is the bison, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Jugular Vein is ranked 78,657^th in the world and 21^st in Distorted Memories for Most Developed, scoring 67.58 on the Human Development Index.