The Federation of Cochus is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 308 million Cochens 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, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 32.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Cochusian economy, worth 10.3 trillion Cochan Yen a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Automobile Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,539 Cochan Yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, parking's carefree without parking car fees, there's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building, and the Cochus Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cochus's national animal is the lynx, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Cochus is ranked 76,445^th in the world and 5^th in Just relax for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,184.4 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.