The People's Republic of Corrinisle is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 1.631 billion Corrinisleans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 79.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Corrinislean economy, worth 132 trillion Corples a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 81,012 Corples, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Moonshine has made a resurgence, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, being impolite in public is punishable by heavy fines, and animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Corrinisle's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Corrinisle is ranked 286,738^th in the world and 172^nd in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Black Market, with 49.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.