The Furutani Shrine Youkai of Hertfordshire and Jammbo is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Clarkov Sahaidachny with an iron fist, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.457 billion Shrine Donaters are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Middle of Frozen Nowhere. The average income tax rate is 52.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jammbonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,217 trillion Dandelions a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 116,466 Dandelions, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared', typing Clarkov Sahaidachny's name into a search engine always gives zero matches, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, and suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hertfordshire and Jammbo's national animal is the Yuki-Onna, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Katawa Snowstorm Shrine.

Hertfordshire and Jammbo is ranked 73,691^st in the world and 906^th in the West Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,285.1 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.