The Protectorate of Cobolica is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Fingle Dan with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 1.487 billion Cobolicans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Citadel. The average income tax rate is 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cobolican economy, worth 275 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 185,101 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, Cobolican novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Fingle Dan, and there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cobolica's national animal is the beaver, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cobolica is ranked 9,475^th in the world and 474^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 11,104.26 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.