The Mutual Democratic Alliance of CogDelve is a massive, safe nation, ruled by AstralKirb with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.629 billion CogDelvers 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, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of CogSpire. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving CogDelvera economy, worth 153 trillion Quarter Notes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 93,923 Quarter Notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

National park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, the countryside is shrouded by wind farms, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. CogDelve's national animal is the Biggie Cheese, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Void.

CogDelve is ranked 304,361^st in the world and 1,734^th in the Outback for Fattest Citizens, with 3.71 Obesity Rate.