The United Kingdom of Cotrace is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, compulsory vegetarianism, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 623 million Cotraceans 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 Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Cotracean economy, worth 66.4 trillion pennies 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 106,638 pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, Cotrace City has become the number one destination for urban exploration in Valaryia, the demands of climate protestors are measured in spray-paint can sales, and graffiti graces every city's streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cotrace's national animal is the Hinny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cotrace is ranked 26,556^th in the world and 13^th in Valaryia for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 7,413.89 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.