The Socialist People's Republic of Kogure is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by General Secretary Sun Taejin with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.465 billion Kogureans 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tongdo. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kogurean economy, worth 568 trillion ryus a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 163,925 ryus, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Engine room hooch is the drink of choice among the nation's navy, the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and the government is flooded with compensation requests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kogure's national animal is the crane, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kogure is ranked 6,552^nd in the world and 1^st in Solanaria for Highest Poor Incomes, with 148,792.77 Standard Monetary Units.