The Protectorate of Milky Way Cookie is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its daily referendums, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.51 billion Milky Way Cookieans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 76.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Milky Way Cookiean economy, worth 586 trillion gold coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 167,094 gold coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside, royal processions are often mistaken for pride parades, and proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers. Crime is totally unknown. Milky Way Cookie's national animal is the cake hound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Milky Way Cookie is ranked 147,443^rd in the world and 2,031^st in Ambition for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 1,952.1 on the Hickory Productivity Index.