The People's Republic of Cutote is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Big Money with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, prohibition of alcohol, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 36.588 billion Cutoters are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order and Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dutote. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Cutoter economy, worth an astonishing 37,152 trillion Credits a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is a breathtaking 1,015,433 Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 8,164,963 per year while the poor average 28,964, a ratio of 281 to 1.

Construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of Rabbit-Tevs and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry, peace talks occasionally rack up a higher body count than the wars they seek to stop, and children and steel are ubiquitous features of the nethermost depths of Cutote. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Cutote's national animal is the Rabbit-Tev, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Worship of Money.

Cutote is ranked 2,920^th in the world and 2^nd in Pontbridge Islands for Largest Populations, with 36.6 billion capita.