The Eternal Misfortune of Copercia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its fear of technology, prohibition of alcohol, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 25.649 billion Copercians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Copercian economy, worth a remarkable 6,423 trillion Coperciums a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Basket Weaving industry. Average income is an amazing 250,454 Coperciums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Loud Patriotic Music Day has been ranked the seventh best new holiday of the year, a stitch in time could see you serving nine, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, and many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Copercia's national animal is the Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is a major religion.

Copercia is ranked 84^th in the world and 1^st in Pencil Sharpeners Puppet Storage for Most Conservative, scoring 100 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.