The People's Republic of Cormorantic is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Executive Councillor Monk Kwalla with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, lack of airports, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 11.93 billion Cormoranticians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Esaina. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Cormorantician economy, worth 313 trillion Cormorantic Togrogs a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Pizza Delivery, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 26,252 Cormorantic Togrogs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes, anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, bemused schoolkids colour in their favourite quadratic equations with crayons, and students who refuse to pray are expelled from school. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Cormorantic's national animal is the Cormorant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Buddhism.

Cormorantic is ranked 319,617^th in the world and 14^th in Island Of Union for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring zero on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.