The Glorious Empire of The Cotabazas is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Exalted Emperor Carlos de Moctezuma with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, punitive income tax rates, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.821 billion Cotabazasians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Great Citadel of Maritect. The average income tax rate is 90.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Cotabazasin economy, worth a remarkable 1,400 trillion Natashas 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an amazing 240,536 Natashas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them, people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on Cotabazasin roads, and official government guidance encourages binge behaviors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Cotabazas's national animal is the Sphinx, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Bloooooooooooooooooood.

The Cotabazas is ranked 5,864^th in the world and 22^nd in Confederation of Corrupt Dictators for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 11,464.34 on the Gilded Widget Scale.