The People's Republic of Corbeaux Communiste is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 415 million crowishes are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crowcago. The average income tax rate is 86.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Crowlandian economy, worth 16.1 trillion crowbars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 38,877 crowbars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage, giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls, every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains, and stone wrist watches that weigh 20lb are the latest trend. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Corbeaux Communiste's national animal is the crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Corbeaux Communiste is ranked 231,645^th in the world and 740^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.83 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.