The Republic of Cod Island is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its lack of airports, parental licensing program, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.207 billion Cod Islandians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cod Islandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,651 trillion Dollars 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. 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 135,322 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned, counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, prosecutors are tucked into bed by the household police officer, and elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cod Island's national animal is the Clam, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Cod Island is ranked 13,062^nd in the world and 4^th in The grimy backyard of Bigej for Most Developed, scoring 89.05 on the Human Development Index.