The Grand Duchy of Courage Caverns is a massive, genial nation, ruled by The Most Courageous Clark Chin-Calliwell with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.288 billion Courage Cavepeople are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Creatis. The average income tax rate is 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Courage Cavernsian economy, worth 154 trillion dollarydoos a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 120,315 dollarydoos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They say that Courage Cavepeople made a dessert and called it peace, thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, and crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Courage Caverns's national animal is the owlbear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Not applicable.

Courage Caverns is ranked 297,229^th in the world and 5,896^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 0.85 flags saluted per person per day.