The United Socialist States of Coliving is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 380 million Colivingians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panelsk-on-Orbit. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Colivingian economy, worth 13.5 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 35,602 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, it takes a village to catch a criminal, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, and a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coliving's national animal is the sglypa, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Coliving is ranked 239,311^th in the world and 256^th in The League for Most Primitive, scoring -100.39 on the Scary Big Number Scale.