The Street of Jan Vermeer is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Johannes Vermeer with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 45.4 billion Jan Vermeerians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic government prioritizes Law & Order, with Administration, Education, and Defense also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Delft. The average income tax rate is 87.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jan Vermeerian economy, worth a remarkable 8,345 trillion euros a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 183,811 euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, walking to the local pizza parlour earns a lovely sports participation ribbon, the Great Pyramid of Delft can be seen from miles away, and raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jan Vermeer's national animal is the lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Jan Vermeer is ranked 5,935^th in the world and 7^th in Nederland for Most Corrupt Governments, with 205.49 kickbacks per hour.