The Mutual Democratic Alliance of CogDelve is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by AstralKirb with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.36 billion CogDelvers 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of CogSpire. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving CogDelvera economy, worth 118 trillion Quarter Notes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,401 Quarter Notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

CogDelve's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, the "daily grind" consists of levelling up in tedious video games, panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet, and families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. CogDelve's national animal is the Biggie Cheese, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Spi'lla Pantheon.

CogDelve is ranked 10,174^th in the world and 40^th in the Outback for Most Cultured, scoring 112 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.