The Japanese Electronics Company of JVC is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 958 million customers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of VHS Town. The average income tax rate is 76.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant JVCian economy, worth 11.1 trillion cameras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 11,592 cameras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is a crime to operate a combine harvester while intoxicated, obesity is a thing of the past due to the nation's sickening cuisine, search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards, and the domestic version of the Paddington Bear movie was a far shorter and bloodier tale. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. JVC's national animal is the cathode ray tube, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

JVC is ranked 127,354^th in the world and 2^nd in South Bohan for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 568.55 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.