The LDF minuteman of Cooksmere is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.334 billion Cooksmereans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Administration, with Defense, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Giathio. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.9%.

The thriving Cooksmerean economy, worth 98.4 trillion gnyoplas a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 73,748 gnyoplas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 259,673 per year while the poor average 15,165, a ratio of 17.1 to 1.

A well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, cancer rates amongst the richest in society are inexplicably on the rise, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, and all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Giathio. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Cooksmere's national animal is the Raven, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Cooksmere is ranked 117,854^th in the world and 3^rd in Giathian Warehouse for Most Developed, scoring 58.44 on the Human Development Index.