The Eternal Misfortune of Copercia is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its fear of technology, aversion to nipples, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 24.993 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 6,125 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 245,074 Coperciums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations, the nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street, and cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy. 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 306,250^th in the world and 37^th in Pencil Sharpeners Puppet Storage for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -76.92 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.