The Borderlands of Crowacia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 445 million occult birdfolk and terrified humans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — prioritizes Education, although Environment, Welfare, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yfeldes. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Crowfolk economy, worth 19.2 trillion souldusts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 43,253 souldusts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ad-blocking has been nationalised, the well-to-do in Forest are never on time for important appointments, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, and people have become comfortably numb. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crowacia's national animal is the specimen, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Crowacia is ranked 146,988^th in the world and 290^th in Forest for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 47.56 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.