The Republic of Corbandia is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 718 million Corbandians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cinsk. The average income tax rate is 49.8%.

The very strong Corbandian economy, worth 50.0 trillion Corbanos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 69,595 Corbanos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes, historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism, and the teaching of evolution has been banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Corbandia's national animal is the Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Corbandia is ranked 257,714^th in the world and 45^th in Eastern Europe for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -4.86 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.