The Democratic Republic of Coratge is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Federal Council of Coratge with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.019 billion Coratgeans 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Räkutøn. The average income tax rate is 53.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Coratge economy, worth 185 trillion Auras a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 91,983 Auras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb, the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", and evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coratge's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Coratge is ranked 83,507^th in the world and 4,066^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.