The Rocking Nation of Pearl Jam is a mammoth, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.244 billion Pearl Jamians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seattle. The average income tax rate is 75.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pearl Jamian economy, worth 960 trillion big bucks 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 black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 116,464 big bucks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Bin lorries have replaced birds as the source of the dawn chorus, the government regularly crumbles under the pressure of terrorists, the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations, and photographers have to apply for a license to photograph Leader. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pearl Jam's national animal is the Stellar Jay, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Pearl Jam is ranked 37,658^th in the world and 2^nd in Seattle for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.