The Kingdom of Cour Land is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, parental licensing program, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.376 billion Courishes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ringed City. The average income tax rate is 85.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Cour Landian economy, worth 579 trillion Souls a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,778 Souls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Ringed City State Museum is said to be haunted by ghastly musicians playing 'Nearer Violet to Thee', graffiti is done with immaculate multi-layer shading, 42 is the answer to life the universe and the new bus route into Ringed City, and art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cour Land's national animal is the Locust, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cour Land is ranked 28,626^th in the world and 508^th in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 83.46 on the Human Development Index.