The Cobalt and Honey Free Land of Quarrinlet is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Collective Freemen with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 17.767 billion Quarrinletians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Freeland. The average income tax rate is 74.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Quarrinletian economy, worth 515 trillion womps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 29,010 womps, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, and weathermen are being arrested for attempting to read the future. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quarrinlet's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quarrinlet is ranked 284,658^th in the world and 13^th in Key Results Union for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,946.87 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.