The Vault Full of Copper Bars is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Copper with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 13.14 billion Copper Barsians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Copper Mine. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.5%.

The powerhouse Copper Barsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,342 trillion copper bars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 102,196 copper bars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 406,961 per year while the poor average 17,286, a ratio of 23.5 to 1.

All-natural foods are becoming a major fad, citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, the government seizes all major gold finds, and law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Copper Bars's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Copper.

Copper Bars is ranked 88,166^th in the world and 1^st in Copper for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 3,143.6 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.