The Corporate Empire of The COT Corporation is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by The Office of the CEO with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.331 billion Corporatians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saledale. The average income tax rate is 7.3%.

The frighteningly efficient COT Corporationian economy, worth a remarkable 1,216 trillion Club Points a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 165,887 Club Points, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Everybody's got wood thanks to The Office of the CEO, anyone who doesn't attend Official Governmental Religious Services is fined, tourists are duped into trimming hedges for the horsy-set, and shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. The COT Corporation's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Money.

The COT Corporation is ranked 158,771^st in the world and 7,196^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 60.26 law-abiding acts per hour.