The Incorporated States of Koutoushou is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its flagrant waste-dumping, strictly enforced bedtime, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 361 million 広東語 are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.7%.

The powerhouse カントン economy, worth 34.5 trillion Yen a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 95,636 Yen, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 360,115 per year while the poor average 17,710, a ratio of 20.3 to 1.

Skin-tone prom dresses are more unpopular than ever, immigrants are told to pull themselves up by their worn-out budget bootstraps, sofas are perpetually on sales that Must End Soon, and prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Koutoushou's national animal is the Crane, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Koutoushou is ranked 212,553^rd in the world and 102^nd in Japan for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 49.5 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.