The Gentle Rush of Joe McElderry Fan Club is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 27.447 billion Joe McElderry Fan Clubians 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 large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Welfare, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South Shields. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The enormous but inefficient Joe McElderry Fan Clubian economy, worth a remarkable 2,977 trillion cheryls a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,499 cheryls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists are pillars of society, badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, and the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees. Crime is totally unknown. Joe McElderry Fan Club's national animal is the joe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Joe McElderry Fan Club is ranked 290,468^th in the world and 66^th in Nudist Dreamland for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.22 kickbacks per hour.