The Bags Full of Copper Pieces is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Copper with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.164 billion Copper Piecesians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Copper Mine. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.5%.

The powerhouse Copper Piecesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,292 trillion copper pieces a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 106,242 copper pieces, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 445,152 per year while the poor average 16,503, a ratio of 27.0 to 1.

Students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, and Copper is described as an everyday person with normal tastes and the usual interests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Copper Pieces's national animal is the dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Copper.

Copper Pieces is ranked 230,049^th in the world and 2^nd in Copper for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 29.54 on the Bus Surprisal Index.