The Eternal Misfortune of Copercia is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, avowedly heterosexual populace, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 25.376 billion Copercians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Copercian economy, worth a remarkable 6,300 trillion Coperciums a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Basket Weaving industry. Average income is an amazing 248,295 Coperciums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Invading armies are given hard glares for their cheek, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, and landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Copercia's national animal is the Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is a major religion.

Copercia is ranked 332,396^th in the world and 36^th in Pencil Sharpeners Puppet Storage for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -68.48 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.