The Unitary State of The Way Sun Cooperation is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by President Convisk with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, vat-grown people, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.493 billion Cooperates are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Deonec. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Cooperate economy, worth a remarkable 1,225 trillion Kredits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 223,094 Kredits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,045,705 per year while the poor average 2,574, a ratio of 794 to 1.

Adjacent suburbs build competing earthworks to force the other neighbourhood to flood first, public spending advocates dread when the government says they're here to help, world leaders often feel uncomfortable when President Convisk tries to recruit them into selling cosmetics, and convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Way Sun Cooperation's national animal is the Hawk, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is State Atheism.

The Way Sun Cooperation is ranked 272,675^th in the world and 21^st in New Coalition of Nations for Most Cultured, scoring 59 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.