The Confederacy of Columbardy is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 78 million Columbards are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government prioritizes Administration, with Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.1%.

The thriving Columbard economy, worth 6.06 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is 77,685 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 231,326 per year while the poor average 20,441, a ratio of 11.3 to 1.

The first test of a good kindergartener is the quality of the sponge-baths they give, families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs, this year's hottest fashion trend is the Lese Majeste collection, and ports have ground to a halt as no boat can reach them without trespassing. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Columbardy's national animal is the turkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Columbardy is ranked 262,569^th in the world and 3,851^st in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 8.23 average smiles per day.