The People's Republic of Comrade Occitania is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Conselh Generau d'Estat with a fair hand, and remarkable for its digital currency, complete lack of prisons, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.128 billion Comrade Occitanians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tolosa. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Comrade Occitanian economy, worth a remarkable 8,871 trillion Pesseta Occitanas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 463,815 Pesseta Occitanas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A certain animated paperclip is enjoying his sunset years at the government's expense, the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy, in distant lands the nation is known as a lovely place that was even better in the good old days, and tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Comrade Occitania's national animal is the Leon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Comrade Occitania is ranked 185^th in the world and 1^st in Solidaritat for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,616.12 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.