The Farming Outpost of Jiucai 48 is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.826 billion Jiucaian Rotenaplistanis are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 45.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Jiucaian Rotenaplistaniani economy, worth 802 trillion Rotenaplistani Trade Dollars 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 137,824 Rotenaplistani Trade Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, and government spending has hit an all-time low. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jiucai 48's national animal is the Rotenaplistani Aplix, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Jiucai 48 is ranked 51,879^th in the world and 9^th in the rotenaples for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,806.02 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.