The Federation of Juolasvesi-Sarkavesi Lake is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ritual sacrifices, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed population of 985 million Juolasvesi-Sarkavesi Lakeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 40.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Juolasvesi-Sarkavesi Lakean economy, worth 48.9 trillion gambles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 49,650 gambles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The studies of art and philosophy are banned, Leader claims tax rises are the result of 'curses', elected officials who disagree with Leader have a lot of accidents, and only fully-fledged members of MENSA are allowed to vote. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Juolasvesi-Sarkavesi Lake's national animal is the gamble, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Juolasvesi-Sarkavesi Lake is ranked 283,890^th in the world and 297^th in Lakes in Finland for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -6.84 on the Hickory Productivity Index.