The State of Mulder Cove is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 35.949 billion Mulder Coveans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 79.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Mulder Covean economy, worth 428 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 11,919 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is compulsory, Mulder Cove has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Mulder Cove in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mulder Cove's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mulder Cove is ranked 35,367^th in the world and 26^th in United States of America for Safest, scoring 107.06 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.