The State of Sousa et Cosmos is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 24.244 billion Sousa et Cosmosians 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, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 72.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Sousa et Cosmosian economy, worth 266 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Tourism, Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 10,989 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and Sousa et Cosmos has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sousa et Cosmos's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sousa et Cosmos is ranked 89,500^th in the world and 4^th in Ashgabat for Most Primitive, scoring 14.14 on the Scary Big Number Scale.