The Patroonship of Cobleskill is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by The Patroon with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The cynical, devout population of 2.638 billion Cobleskillians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of SUNY. The average income tax rate is 52.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Cobleskillian economy, worth 227 trillion SUNYs 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is 86,238 SUNYs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Armed security details escort librarians to their homes, preservative manufacturers are told to put a lid on it, foreign musicians that The Patroon dislikes are turned away at the border, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cobleskill's national animal is the Beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cobleskill is ranked 294,273^rd in the world and 10^th in Upstate for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -10.95 on the Clooney Contribution Index.