The Eternal Misfortune of Copercia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its lack of airports, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 20.132 billion Copercians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Copercian economy, worth a remarkable 4,012 trillion Coperciums a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Basket Weaving industry. Average income is an impressive 199,325 Coperciums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Formerly internationally exported goods are now given away for free, the best way to be heard in politics is to speak softly and carry a big comedy prop, students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations, and blind dates tend to result in bruised shins. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Copercia's national animal is the Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is a major religion.

Copercia is ranked 67^th in the world and 3^rd in Pencil Sharpeners Puppet Storage for Lowest Crime Rates, with 302.05 law-abiding acts per hour.