The Intergalactic Empire of Costa-Luna is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Her Imperial Majesty The Empress Navier with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, infamous sell-swords, and national health service. The compassionate population of 8.657 billion Costa-Lunans 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 Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Las Venturas. The average income tax rate is 87.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Costa-Lunan economy, worth 767 trillion bitcoins a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,655 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Smoking is banned in public areas, children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work, diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, and the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Costa-Luna's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Costa-Luna is ranked 37,920^th in the world and 42^nd in Yggdrasil for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.