The Corporate Consortium of Courathar is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Zeller-Voss Board of Directors with a fair hand, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, sprawling nuclear power plants, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 12.601 billion Couratharians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solus. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Couratharian economy, worth a remarkable 5,192 trillion bytes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 412,073 bytes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,534,326 per year while the poor average 8,200, a ratio of 431 to 1.

Designer cars make no distinction between poor people and speed bumps, inheritance tax has recently been abolished, populations of two-headed sheep have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, and the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Courathar's national animal is the sheep, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Mercerism.

Courathar is ranked 17,982^nd in the world and 42^nd in Capitalist Paradise for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 8,347.42 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.