The Republic of Cugista is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 5.937 billion Cugistans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.2%.

The very strong Cugistan economy, worth 308 trillion pesos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 52,001 pesos, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 227,380 per year while the poor average 7,502, a ratio of 30.3 to 1.

Crime is a problem. Cugista's national animal is the beaver, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Cugista is ranked 83,817^th in the world and 1,009^th in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 26.18 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.