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The United Kingdom of Cotrace is a huge, genial nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate population of 657 million Cotraceans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 86.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Cotracean economy, worth 71.9 trillion pennies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 109,420 pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The sound of wooden legs echo throughout Cotrace after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, pro-wrestling bouts open with a legal disclaimer insisting that any violence is guaranteed 100% faked, octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it, and a newly discovered small mammal's name translates into Cotracean as 'your finger, you fool'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cotrace's national animal is the Hinny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cotrace is ranked 124,541^st in the world and 76^th in Valaryia for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 2,549.46 on the Hickory Productivity Index.