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The Democratic States of The Coroff is a very large, cultured nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 185 million Coroffians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 23.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Coroffian economy, worth 7.00 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,860 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

9 out of 10 consumers think that vitamins can cure cancer, academics are questioning the quality of the nation's newly-reprinted science textbooks, Coroffians are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna, and residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. The Coroff's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Coroff is ranked 218,194^th in the world and 3,776^th in the South Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 6.98 flags saluted per person per day.