The Open State of The Coyote Commune is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Warden with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.484 billion Communals 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Nassau. The average income tax rate is 88.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Coyote Communean economy, worth 107 trillion Dubloons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 72,324 Dubloons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Saying "don't do anything that Warden wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum, 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, and smoking is banned in public areas. Crime is totally unknown. The Coyote Commune's national animal is the Coyote, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pantheism.

The Coyote Commune is ranked 7,484^th in the world and 227^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 12,444.18 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.