The Grand Duchy of Courage Caverns is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The Most Courageous Clark Chin-Calliwell with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.258 billion Courage Cavepeople 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Creatis. The average income tax rate is 85.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Courage Cavernsian economy, worth 147 trillion dollarydoos a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 117,387 dollarydoos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ancient antique swords have had their blades replaced with latex boffer LARP replicas, from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in Courage Caverns, Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, and whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Courage Cavernsian Embarrassments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Courage Caverns's national animal is the owlbear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Not applicable.

Courage Caverns is ranked 43,458^th in the world and 994^th in the Rejected Realms for Highest Average Incomes, with 117,387.34 Standard Monetary Units.