The People's Republic of Jerrangutan is a large, cultured nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 164 million Jerrangutanians 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 Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 72.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Jerrangutanian economy, worth 3.06 trillion Soviets 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 18,685 Soviets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is currently revamping its entire education system, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, and the love has gone in Jerrangutan. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jerrangutan's national animal is the Orangutan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jerrangutan is ranked 315,798^th in the world and 4,374^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 46.83 on the Human Development Index.