The Corporate Consortium of Courathar is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by the Zeller-Voss Board of Directors with a fair hand, and renowned for its digital currency, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 12.573 billion Couratharians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solus. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Couratharian economy, worth a remarkable 5,175 trillion bytes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 411,665 bytes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,310,142 per year while the poor average 11,742, a ratio of 281 to 1.

Bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms, the state believes that children are what you make of them, much of Courathar's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, and drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Courathar's national animal is the sheep, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Mercerism.

Courathar is ranked 332,418^th in the world and 78^th in Capitalist Paradise for Nicest Citizens, with 0.1 average smiles per day.