The Grand Duchy of Corneliah is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, democratic population of 2.912 billion Royal Highnesses 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 relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Samovar. The average income tax rate is 12.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Corneliahian economy, worth 391 trillion Diamonds And Pearls a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 134,289 Diamonds And Pearls, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks, and traffic cops are puzzled to see that nobody exceeds the speed limits. Crime is totally unknown. Corneliah's national animal is the Blue whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Corneliah is ranked 38,001^st in the world and 4^th in LGBT Nations for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 185.07 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.