The Crowbar Happiness of Cotters and Squatters is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Stayin Alive with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic, devout population of 23.873 billion Cotters and Squattersians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lead City. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Cotters and Squattersian economy, worth 881 trillion Commons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is 36,919 Commons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Cars are banned, military funding has been stripped back, Cotters and Squatters recently decided against having a capital city, and even the most lowly council pen-pusher has the same political power as a senior minister. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cotters and Squatters's national animal is the Ground, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cotters and Squatters is ranked 38,685^th in the world and 1^st in The Commune for Safest, scoring 106.14 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.