The Confederacy of Cormia is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 278 million Cormians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalazonkis. The average income tax rate is 76.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Cormian economy, worth 18.0 trillion Balls 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 64,708 Balls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anyone who so much as frowns risks being referred to a mental health unit, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law, and military funding has been stripped back. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cormia's national animal is the Termite, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cormia is ranked 12,480^th in the world and 1^st in Paradise Everywhere for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 4,066.71 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.