The Empire of Couch Empire is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Couch Potato with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, triple-decker prams, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 938 million Couch Empireans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of That one cushion. The average income tax rate is 54.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Couch Empirean economy, worth 87.9 trillion Potatochips a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 93,751 Potatochips, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Royal mothers accustomed to baby-talk assure the troops "we gweatly wespect your service; yes, we do", small shoes often wash up on the beach, historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre, and ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Couch Empire's national animal is the Dust bunnys, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Couch Empire is ranked 331,418^th in the world and 225^th in Christians for Most Cultured, scoring 37 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.