The Democratic States of JonStar is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 280 million JonStarians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant JonStarian economy, worth 4.39 trillion cygnets 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 Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Information Technology. Average income is 15,674 cygnets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The thrash metal version of the national anthem is topping charts, the dance skills of Leader are said to be almost as subversive as their politics, cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, and government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. JonStar's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

JonStar is ranked 294,864^th in the world and 2,469^th in the West Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 46.44 on the Human Development Index.