The United Socialist States of Cot Deviet is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Chancellor Sommer with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.453 billion Cot Devietians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Singapore. The average income tax rate is 76.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cot Devietian economy, worth a remarkable 1,083 trillion Vitaliks a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 145,352 Vitaliks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pirates armed with sonar-guided semi-autonomous torpedos and laser weapons systems are often seen capturing fishing trawlers, the ongoing space elevator construction project has elevated the national debt to all new levels, business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, and it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cot Deviet's national animal is the Desert Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cot Deviet is ranked 26,358^th in the world and 368^th in Europe for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 3,083.99 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.