The Republic of San Jimenez is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Lucas Canone with a fair hand, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, ubiquitous missile silos, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 16.137 billion Jimeneans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gran Teran. The average income tax rate is 88.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Jimenean economy, worth a remarkable 1,311 trillion Jimenean Pesos a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 81,296 Jimenean Pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

You can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health, hospitals in San Jimenez are too busy serving the needs of The Western Isles to see Jimeneans, a life spent suffering in silence is considered noble, and hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. San Jimenez's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

San Jimenez is ranked 275,063^rd in the world and 161^st in The Western Isles for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -9.21 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.