The Democratic States of JonStar is a very large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 482 million JonStarians 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 Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant JonStarian economy, worth 6.80 trillion cygnets 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 led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Information Technology. Average income is 14,113 cygnets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists are pillars of society, military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, and power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. JonStar's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

JonStar is ranked 246,521^st in the world and 1,908^th in the West Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -2.19 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.