The Regional Park of Cowles Mountain is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Park Ranger with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 14.647 billion Cowles Mountainians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cowles Mountain. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Cowles Mountainian economy, worth a remarkable 2,870 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 195,981 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nighttime sightings of raccoons sporting Circle-A patches and bandanna masks are on the rise, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Cowles Mountainian language, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit, and abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals. Crime is totally unknown. Cowles Mountain's national animal is the coyote, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Paganism.

Cowles Mountain is ranked 6,614^th in the world and 1^st in Mission Trails Regional Park for Lowest Crime Rates, with 109.84 law-abiding acts per hour.