The Federation of Costco Tire Center is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Scam Likely with an iron fist, and remarkable for its flagrant waste-dumping, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 14.336 billion Costco Tire Centerians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 1st floor water cooler. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Costco Tire Centerian economy, worth a remarkable 3,141 trillion costcash coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 219,153 costcash coins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 834,613 per year while the poor average 39,857, a ratio of 20.9 to 1.

Medical lawsuits are out of control, contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art, newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines, and pedal-powered removal vans are a popular Maxxmas gift for the children of separated parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Costco Tire Center's national animal is the domesticated 12-gauge, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Pride and Accomplishment.

Costco Tire Center is ranked 287,223^rd in the world and 11,117^th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -494.42 on the Scary Big Number Scale.