The People's Republic of The Holy Jand is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Chancellor Ogleforth with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.005 billion Jand are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skellow. The average income tax rate is 93.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,141 trillion salks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 162,949 salks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Group hugs break out during floor votes, biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar, The Holy Jand recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace, and hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework. Crime is totally unknown. The Holy Jand's national animal is the black elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Holy Jand is ranked 287,191^st in the world and 50^th in Atlantis for Most Primitive, scoring -509.28 on the Scary Big Number Scale.