The Chemical Compound of Cobalt Chloride is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by the Strongest with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 22.274 billion Cobaltarians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of a swirling vortex of koinophobia. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cobaltarian economy, worth a remarkable 2,408 trillion shrapnels a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,116 shrapnels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Printing ink yields narcissistic hoodoo's biggest return on investment, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany the Strongest to meetings with foreign heads of state, diaper-wrapped shawarma is a fan-favorite, and expectant parents view twins with equal parts joy and suspicion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cobalt Chloride's national animal is the feral catboy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is narcissistic hoodoo.

Cobalt Chloride is ranked 97,158^th in the world and 2^nd in The New Horizon for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,038.06 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.