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The Democratic Republic of Kobagia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Gabriel Anthony Losde Bisar with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, prohibition of alcohol, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 11.672 billion Kobagians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Merrdelle. The average income tax rate is 88.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kobagian economy, worth a remarkable 1,213 trillion Bagynos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Retail, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 103,937 Bagynos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schools are forbidden to teach anything that might paint the government in a negative light, they who do not work shall not eat, the new biography of Gabriel Anthony Losde Bisar is subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Bomb", and international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kobagia's national animal is the Kobagian tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholic and Kobagian Christianism.

Kobagia is ranked 283,657^th in the world and 5,174^th in The North Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 12,264.68 Standard Monetary Units.